Harborview Medical Center is gearing up for the annual wave of fireworks-related injuries. Every year surrounding the Fourth of July, the hospital sees about 55 patients with burns and injuries to their hands and eyes, University of Washington (UW) Medicine stated in a news release on Tuesday.
Doctors said most of the people who ended up injured, or worse killed, were not sober when they set off fireworks.
“They’re using alcohol and other drugs and that really does not mix well with fireworks,” Dr. Stephen Morris, an emergency medicine specialist at UW Medicine in Seattle, said. “So we just do see more injuries when those things are happening together.”
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