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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 875
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/02/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| 5Y/O,M,MAY HAVE SCRATCHED EYE WITH HALLOWEEN MASK, R EYE IRRITATION (CLINICAL CORNEAL ABRASION) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2008 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks, Manual scissors |
| 28 YOM WAS CUTTING COSTUME WITH SCISSORS AND CUT FINGER LACERATION FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/01/2008 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PAIN TO EYE GOT GLITTER FROM COSTUME INTO EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PATIENT WAS WEARING A HALLOWEEN COSTUME THAT WAS FAIRLY STIFF, HAD A MECHANICAL FALL BACK HITTING HEAD. DX-POST CONCUSSIVE SYNDROME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ear | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks, Doorsills or frames |
| TRIPPED ON HALLOWEEN COSTUME - HIT AGAINST DOOR FRAME 1.5 CM EAR LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| HAS LAC TO (L) MIDDLE FINGER, CUT WHILE MAKING A HALLOWEEN COSTUME--LAC (L) MIDDLE FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/29/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT GOT COSTUME MAKE UP IN EYE. DX: RIGHT EYE ABRASIONS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| INJURED (L) EYE FROM A MASK HE WAS WEARING----CORNEAL ABRASION (L) EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT GOT HER R LEG CAUGHT IN SOMEONES HALLOWEEN CAPE AND TWISTED HER R KN EE. PAIN W/ WEIGHT BEARING. DX R KNEE SPRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/25/2008 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Costumes or masks, Adhesives |
| 45YOM AT HOME DRESSED AS A PIRATE, WEARING A MUSTACHE/ BEARD ATTACHED WITH ADHESIVE & A PATCH ON EYE,GOT ADHESIVE ON HANDS,RUBBED EYE;EYE IRR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/24/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Toe | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| TOE LAC, PT TRIPPED WHEN WEARING HALLOWEEN COSTUME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/21/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT HAD SUDDEN ONSET OF UPPER BACK PAIN WHEN TRYING ON HALLOWEEN COSTUME . PAIN CONTINUES. D: MUSCLE STRAIN, SPASM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/13/2008 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| TRIPPED OVER COSTUME AT *** KNEE PAIN * |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PATIENT RUNNING IN BASEMENT, RAN INTO TWIN BROTHER WHO WAS WEARING A FI RE HAT, HIT NOSE/MOUTH, EYES ROLLED BACK, STIFF; NOSE LAC., BREATHHOLDI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| CAUGHT FINGER IN A FACEMASK. DX SPRAIN FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/09/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| STRUCK TO FOREARM BY A FACEMASK. DX CONTUSIO R FOREARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT SUSTAINED AN ABRASION OF AN EYE WHILE WEARING A PIRATE PATCH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2008 | Age: 10 months | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| DAD WAS TAKING PICTURES OF HER WITH A FEATHER BOA, AROUND HER , HER EYE STARTED GETTING RED, DX: EYE IRRITATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PATIENT UP IN ROOM PLAYING WITH MASKS AT HOME, STARTED HAVING CHEST PAI N; CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT DEVELOPED RASH TO HANDS WHEN WEARING COSTUME AT A PARTY DX: DERMATITIS TO HAND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| OLDER BROTHER THREW PLASTIC DARTHVADER HELMET AT PT, LACERATION EYEBROW /FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/01/2008 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Costumes or masks |
| PT WITH FB IN EYE, FROM WEARING A MASK WHILE IN JAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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