Horrific 4th of July injuries that’ll leave you red, white, and bruised (18 Photos)

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Ah, the 4th of July. A day filled with patriotism, fireworks and booze. What could go wrong? Well, for starters, here’s my younger brother going for the Darwin award of stupidity with a firework in the ass. Hospital workers are sharing the wildest injuries they’ve seen on this day celebrating ‘Merica, and they’re pretty gnarly. If you’re partaking in the heavy drinking today I’d suggest leaving the firework operations to others.

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Some drunk guy was holding a mortar tube and firing it off. Ended up turning towards him so he put his hand over the tube to hopefully stop it coming out?

Ended up blowing up the majority of his hand and burned a hole in his abdomen.

Hand we took back for multiple surgeries including one to basically sew his hand to his groin to heal for a while. Abdomen was super lucky and just burned a hole through the skin, muscles and such. Didn’t involve any intestines at all.
-Nysoz

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Responded to a call in a Walmart. Some kid lit a firework into their display of fireworks, and started an industrial fire. took 6 hours to put out. Kid got juvie time.
-Luftwaffe_Panda

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Tech here, I had a patient who thought it would be funny to light their farts with a lighter when they were drunk. Their perineal area was scorched. 
-15jackets

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My dads got a good 4th of july maiming story, he was 11 years old up in Port Jervis NY, running around, slipt, fell, and sliced his ear off on the side of an oven, so he goes to the emergency room.

He sits between two guys, both drunk off there heads, one guy who has blown his hand clean apart, and another who put an M8 in his mouth, both are telling him to never play with fireworks. Needless to say, my father was not fond of us playing with fireworks.
-Killgarth

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Two years ago, patient came in with only thumb and pointer finger remaining on right hand. Of course, there was alcohol involved.

Actual words being slurred from patient: staring down at the mess “Well shit…..” deep sigh “This is gonna hurt in the morning!”
-mermaiddreams1

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So an older guy is sitting out behind his house planning on having a few drinks, shooting tannerite, and maybe smoke a few cigars. He sets the stuff up, and a coyote comes to the edge of the wooded area, and the guy gets the bright idea of putting some raw venison on one of the stumps he set up and blowing up the coyote when he starts munching on it.The coyote is spooked enough by the guy it goes back into the woods.

Guy starts walking down to clean up his stuff when he sees the coyote has snuck up through the grass, and he quickly fires a shot at the stump. Big boom, coyote runs off, and the folding knife he had used to cut the venison… the folding knife he had forgotten he set down on the stump… had kicked back and nailed him right in the groin.

The knife was closed, thankfully, but it still gave him quite the injury and I guess while my EMT cousin was helping him out, his wife was chewing him out, making an already embarrassing situation worse.
-PlanetBarfly

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Once saw drunk guys light fireworks off next to a group of people where there was a fucking baby. The box tipped over and started firing AT THE BABY. So grabbed said baby and took off covering its ears and face and then screamed at these two jack offs who then had serious burns trying to pick the box back up.

Not even my baby.
-HankswifeHill

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I did work with a dude who was an Iraq 2 veteran, who only had 4 fingers on one hand. He loved to scare kids around fireworks season by telling them he lost his finger in a firecracker incident.
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Someone lit off fireworks close to my mother on 4th of July and I guess she though she was on fire, so she Took her pants off and attempting the rest of her clothes until my brother stopped her and reassured her she was NOT on fire.
-Lsilva143

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A recurrent injury I see in the hospital is someone setting off a small firework in their hand. Hand open, little damage. Closed hand around the firework? Yeah, anywhere from a few fingers to the majority of the hand now gone.
-Greyff

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I didn’t get hit but everything else did. We bought one of those giant 200$ firework barrages from Phantom Fireworks and we put it on uneven ground. The first shot flip it on its side.

A couple of windows blew out, our pool got some holes in it. And of course, my father lost some fingers after he accidentally caught one. The pointer and the ring finger, but they were reattached.
-MarioTennis69

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A drunk man in a gorilla costume on a jet ski crashed into the lake dock one time and I had to kick him off the beach.
-Cipher1414

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I took post-op care of a dude who got drunk and blew off one of his testicles with a Roman candle. Nice guy. A bit strange.
-SmolWeens

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My wife who is a nurse had drunk guy who took firecracker face.
-Brittan1985

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Last year someone thought it was a good idea to set off fireworks on a sailboat five miles off shore. Needless to say, the boat caught on fire, like a lot of fire, and there was no life boat, and only three life jackets which works out pretty well (/s) when there are thirteen people on board. And they were all drinking or drunk. They lived but that was an interesting one.
-carmelacorleone

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One firework. 3 hands. 7 fingers gone. 2 brother were messing with home made fireworks and one went off while one fellow was holding with 2 hands and the other brother with one hand.
-_am_half_burrito

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So one year my dad comes home and asks my mom how his ass looks and pulls down his pants to show her some huge burns on his ass cheeks, with the worst of it in his crack. She’s of course shocked to see this and asks what happened.

Turns out my father had thought it would be really funny to stick a sparkler in his ass and run around with it lit.
-assbutt_Angelface