#fireworks accident

[shashikalladastuff]

Fireworks Factory Explosion Rocks Malta — A Dangerous Goods Perspective A powerful explosion tore through the Ta' Lourdes fireworks factory in the Magħtab area of Malta at around 6:30 am on Monday, 1 June 2026. The factory was destroyed in the blast....

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[indiaweekly]

Kerala temple festival tragedy: Over 150 injured, 10 seriously in fireworks accident

OVER 150 people were injured, including ten seriously, in a fireworks accident during a temple festival near Neeleswaram in Kerala late last

[eldritchdemonfox]

Last night there was a massive fireworks explosion incident that has left many people injured. While I witnessed the event, I am unharmed, although shaken. One of the victims was a three year old boy who is in critical condition. I found the family’s gofundme so I’m posting it here

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On July 4th 2024, while at a firework show, my 3-year-old nephew was struck b… Suzanna Church needs your support for Urgent Funds for Toddle

[urdutahzeeb]

اسٹیج پر آتش بازی کے دوان اسپینش ڈانسرجوانا سینز کی موت

نئی دہلی: اسپین سے تعلق رکھنے والی ایک پاپ گلوکارہ اور ڈانسر اسٹیج پرفارمنس کے دوران حادثے میں ہلاک ہوگئیں۔

[jimonlight]

Ten Minutes of Fireworks Intentionally Fired at Once

Ten Minutes of Fireworks Intentionally Fired at Once

I had to post this, it makes me giggle like a dumbass every time I see it.  These guys built a ten minute fireworks display and fired that sucker off in one big gulp – an entire fireworks display at once. I love fireworks…  almost as much as I love lighting…  fireworks are explosive one-use-only lighting fixtures with one hell of an effect wheel! This was an intentional use of a whole ton of…

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[deadinchicago]

4 July - The Fourth of July, 1905

These are safe fireworks.  Photo source.

The Fourth of July has always been a dangerous holiday in Chicago, and around the country.  People are quick to use all sorts of explosives on everything they can find, and while we have injuries today, nothing comes quite like the injuries of 100 odd years ago.  What follows are examples of explosive accidents from 1905.

There was, of course, a law against fireworks in the city to help protect the citizens, but no one observed it. One new police officer attempted to arrest a man who had fired off a canon cracker, but no one else seemed to agree with him.  A mob overtook him and the would be prisoner, frightening the new cop so much that he shot a man in the leg before his prisoner ran free.  

Just as the sun’s light was fading, at 8:30 PM, Charles Strelow, only 19, was at Melrose and Paulina when four men shot him in the back, killing him instantly. The men disappeared before anyone could identify or capture them. Strelow had just bought a revolver with blank cartridges, looking to shoot up in the air and make a great deal of noise.  As Strelow walked home, his brother next to him, he shot up in the air, and the men asked them for the weapon, saying that they were the police.  He refused to give it, started to run, and was promptly shot in the back by the “police.”

Katie Hugg, 15 years old, was playing with 6 year old Harry Hind in front of her mother’s store. She’d stolen the gun her mother kept for protection, wanting to shoot it in the air for celebration. She was told it needed to have the trigger pulled 5 times in order to actually fire.  Deciding to scare the six year old, she put the gun to his chest by his heart, and pulled the trigger three times.  It fired on the first round, entering his lung and breaking a shoulder blade as he screamed.  He was brought to a doctor and was told he would survive, but Katie would now have to forever remember shooting a six year old boy just for fun.

These were but a few of the injuries in the Fourth of July celebrations of 1905.

From the Chicago Tribune, 4 July 1905.  Source.

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3 July - Fireworks on the Throat

Please don’t explode by me. Photo source.

It was the Fourth of July, so naturally 16 year old Chester Bulwicki was more than happy to start exploding things.  He was in the backyard of his house on Bryn Mawr avenue with his 13 year old brother Marion, his mother standing by and watching. The boys whooped as they lit off explosive after explosive, throwing them into the air and shooting them over the yard.  

They weren’t able to buy the fireworks in the city, of course - they’d been banned.  Fortunately though, Marion had bought them a few blocks away in what was technically Norwood, outside of the city.  It was easy enough for them to then bring them home.  

As they played in the yard, Chester lit a firework and threw it in the air.  It went up, but the wind suddenly changed direction, and the firework flew back down towards him, hitting his throat. That was the moment it exploded.  Sparks fizzled out as blood spurted from from Chester’s throat. He fell to the ground, unable to breath, his windpipe decimated.  Despite the best efforts of both the fire department and a hospital, Chester died two hours later.

From the Chicago Tribune, 5 July 1935.  Source.

[girlboccaccio]

I will try to be the more accurate I probably can, and I ask patience for my terrible grammar, but what happened in Turin was 99% probably a fireworks accident, with a group of frightened people that started to pull the others with falling hurdles, all of this causing a terribile domino effect. The number of involded/wounded people is very unclear and swing between 50 and 200~, some assisted by paramedics and the others brought to the hospital. The witnesses says that in a few minutes, if not seconds, confusion broke out and happened what I have already tried to say, but the most alarming part of all this is that - for only a simple fireworks accident - one thousand of people now are hurt, proving what hysteria, psychosis and months of fear are capable to cause in big city as Turin, during mass events.