A neighborhood friend handed her a firework he had found. She lighted it. A 12-year-old suffered traumatic hand injuries after setting off a firework - Los Angeles Times ...

Every Independence Day, a viral photo apparently showing hand X-rays after firework injuries is shared as a warning. We traced the origin of each X-ray photo. A viral photo shared every Fourth of July ...

Last year, 11 Americans died from fireworks injuries and more than 14,700 were treated in emergency rooms, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.. In more than one-third of ...

The surgeon explained the injury was caused by the explosion of an M80, which is a large, powerful firecracker. Another one of the X-rays was posted to Instagram by a Russian hospital in 2020 .

Every Independence Day, a viral photo apparently showing hand X-rays after firework injuries is shared as a warning. We traced the origin of each X-ray photo.