Independence Day celebrations are full of fun parades, delicious barbecues and, best of all, colorful fireworks.

Though this July 4th tradition may be fun, fireworks cause more injuries than you may think you avow Doctor speak on the dangers of fireworks and their experiences with patient injuries.

In the last ten years, we've had 50 patients roughly come into the E.R.

with firework injuries, and we've seen more than 100 and clinic.

So if you put the numbers to it, you know, it's roughly 5 to 10 a year that are injured that just come to our facility alone or the Nationwide, It's about 10,000 people a year that are injured by fireworks that seek medical care.

Around 20% of all firework injuries actually occur to be IEDs.

And they can be anything, some small particles getting into the eye to actual injuries to the eye itself that can lead to permanent vision injuries or vision loss or blindness.

The next highest number is the IS and singers is usually from people mishandling fireworks or England servers that haven't exploded or sparked one of the things like that.

And they can result in things as minor as a very small mild burn that can be treated.

And that's a limit to an explosion in the hand that can result in loss of the hand or permanent dysfunction or disfigurement.

You never want to leave fireworks close to any structures.

You never want to light fireworks where they could tip over be angled.

So if you are going to light fireworks, try to have a broad flat surface like a driveway or a concrete pad or something like that, you're going to set them up on when you're finished.

Leave them alone.

Like go do something else for a while.

Especially for fireworks that have multiple rounds.

They fire off like Roman candles or or mortars and things like that.

Oftentimes they might be incomplete and you want to leave them alone for at least 20 minutes and then definitely soak all the ones that you use in water before you throw them away in a trashcan outside.

Never bring a firework that has gone on inside your house or garage or anything like that.

At the end of the day, the safest thing to do is leave it to the professionals and leave it to adults.

Just enjoy the 4th of July.

But the vast majority of injuries with signs that occur this time of the year and we don't want people to become part of that.