Sara Manns: If you’re fast and extremely clumsy you can put your eye out, which is also a kind of burn and a kind of puncture wound I have 27 cousins & am from a rural area, seen some things

All it is yet another #july4th fireworks season where we ask that you kindly not launch fireworks off your body youtube.com/shorts/n_Czj...

People die doing this, never launch fireworks off your body #july4thyoutube.com Every year people die launching fireworks off their body.NEVER launch fireworks off your body. Don't you do it. Don't let your friends do it. Always launch f...

We also ask that you not even stand near an explosive device that is capable of tearing your body to pieces. Launch fireworks from a safe distance and leave professional fireworks to the professionals.

If anyone is feeling especially bleak, head over to our annual fireworks report where we describe some of these incidents (pdf): www.cpsc.gov/content/2023...

2023 Fireworks Annual Reportwww.cpsc.gov

In the four weeks surrounding July 4th in 2023: Teenagers ages 15 to 19 years of age had the highest estimated rate of emergency department-treated, fireworks-related injuries, with children ages 5-9 years old having the second highest rate.

There were an estimated 800 emergency department-treated injuries associated with firecrackers and 700 with sparklers. The parts of the body most often injured by fireworks were hands and fingers (an estimated 35% of injuries) along with head, face, and ears (an estimated 22%).

Are the sparkler injuries burns, or something else I’m failing to imagine?

Vast majority are burns!

If you’re fast and extremely clumsy you can put your eye out, which is also a kind of burn and a kind of puncture wound I have 27 cousins & am from a rural area, seen some things

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