Harborview treated 52 people for fireworks-related injuries
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Harborview reports that as of 9am on Monday, July 7, 2025 clinicians at Harborview Medical Center have treated 52 people who sustained fireworks-related injuries during the July Fourth holiday weekend.
The injuries are characterized as:
- 21 involving hands
- 14 involving eyes
- 9 involving other body areas
- 8 involving multiple areas (such as hands and eyes)
Harborview is the only designated Level I adult and pediatric trauma center in Washington, and serves as the regional trauma and burn center for Alaska, Idaho and Montana.

2 comments:
Fireworks should be left to the professionals. In the hands of amateurs they are dangerous, as this injury report confirms
Why? For a sparkle and boom? Sheesh
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