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• Source: Orlando Sentinel
• Date: March 04, 2007
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• Bylines: Beth Kassab
• Topics: Safety
• Data Types: Federal Data
• Description/Excerpt: Performers at Walt Disney World's four Orlando theme parks reported enough injuries in 2005 to affect more than a third of the local 1,900-person work force that portrays 270 different characters, a Sentinel analysis of injury reports found. Costumes weighing as much as 47 pounds were blamed for 282 out of 773 injuries, mostly to the neck, shoulder or back, according to reports kept by Disney during 2005, the most recent year available, for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.