Mayo Clinic Minute - 3 tips to avoid Halloween hand injuries

There are plenty of frights to go around on Halloween, but a hand injury probably isn't one you'd expect.

"Interestingly, it's the fourth busiest holiday for hand injuries," says Dr. Sanj Kakar, a Mayo Clinic orthopedic hand and wrist surgeon.

Dr. Kakar says almost one-third of those Halloween hand injuries are among kids 10 to 14. And most of them happen when people are carving pumpkins.
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