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Fireworks Safety Month
| Facts about Fireworks In 2003, four persons died and an estimated 9,300 were treated in emergency departments for fireworks-related injuries in the United States About 45% of persons injured from fireworks are children ages 14 years and younger Fireworks-related injuries most frequently involve hands and fingers (26%), eyes (21%), and the head and face (18%). More than half of the injuries are burns (63%); contusions and lacerations were the second most frequent injuries (18%) In addition to medical costs directly and indirectly attributable to fireworks injuries, U.S. fire departments reported approximately 24,200 fireworks-related fires in 1999 that were estimated to have cost $17.2 million in direct property damage |
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