Ice cream - 41 claims, including mouths pierced with ice cream sticks, slips on spilled ice cream, wrists hurt while scooping it, and backs strained from lifting cartons of ice cream
Barbecues - 521 claims, including burns, strains from lifting the barbecue, and bruising from walking into the barbecue.
Jandals - 213 claims, including nails entering the foot through the jandal, stubbed toes and blisters, and slips while wearing jandals
Sand - 877 claims, including burnt feet, sand in the eyes, bluebottle stings from digging in the sand, and sprained ankles from running through sand
Beach or backyard cricket - 67 claims, including being hit by the bat, diving for the ball and injuring arms and shoulder, and strained muscles.
There were 4808 ACC claims lodged in the Wanganui district last summer, and of these only six were sand-related, and fewer than three were barbecue and jandal-related.
The total costs paid out to date for all claims lodged in Wanganui during that period is $3,510,656, but this does not include ongoing claims.
Nationally the number of claims made in summer was higher than winter claims, but autumn took the cake for the most injurious season of the year.
ACC Injury Prevention programme manager Megan Nagel said there was always a small number of claims each year that had a distinctively seasonal flavour.
"Beach-related injuries tend to be more frequent in summer, as you'd expect, while injuries caused by heaters are more common in winter."
"During summer, people also often throw themselves back into physical activity after a less-than-active winter," she said.
"Building up your activity gradually and remembering to warm up before exercising can reduce your risk of injury."
Throughout the year, falls were the number one cause of injury, at 290,000 claims nationwide.
Home-related injuries (including falls) made up 670,000 of last year's claims, while sport and recreation had around 400,000. Work claims came to 200,000 and road claims were only 30,000.
ACC spokesman Glenn Donovan said this pattern tended to be repeated in most regions/districts.
"The most common category of injury claimed for is 'soft tissue injury' (bruising, sprains, strains)," Mr Donovan said, "followed by 'lacerations, puncture wounds, stings' and then 'fractures/dislocations'.
"Again, this pattern tends to be repeated in most regions/districts," he said.The seasonal statistics in this story are approximate only, as they are based on a search of key terms used on the ACC claim form and the level of detail recorded can vary significantly from claim to claim.