About three-quarters of injuries happened in the period around the Fourth of July.Ībout one-third of the injuries were to the head, face, ears or eyes.

Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that in 2022, 10,200 people were treated at emergency rooms and 11 deaths were blamed on fireworks. Firefighters, medics and local police dragged the victims from the area to safety, and four people were taken to hospitals - two with serious injuries, Northwest Consolidated Fire District Chief Todd Maxton said in a statement. Late Saturday night, firefighters and medics were called to Lexington Township, a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, for reports of a shed on fire and arrived to find fireworks actively exploding from the burning shed and several people lying injured on the ground.

ARE FIREWORKS DANGEROUS?ĭespite widespread education efforts, thousands of Americans are badly injured by fireworks each year, and this year is no exception. It helps that the Fourth of July is on a Tuesday, creating essentially a four-day weekend. Sales are expected to rise another $100 million this year, the association said.

It shocked the industry, to be quite honest with you.” “They were firing off fireworks all of 2020. “People went to the fireworks store beginning Memorial Day weekend and they just didn’t stop,” said Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association.

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