Firework Injuries in Slow Motion! - Ballistic High-Speed

Don't try anything you see in this video at home. We are trained and licensed professionals.

[BallisticHighSpeed]

Let us know what you'd like to see next captured in ultra high-speed!

[ChrisRaynorMD]

The Dangers of Fireworks cannot be overstated. I want to cover this topic for quite some time as I have seen quite a few injuries in the hospital setting of people who were mishandling fireworks. Great job guys.

[michellelandis]

My ex was a paramedic in Detroit. He picked up a woman on July 5th who had found an M80 in her boyfriend's pocket and, thinking it was a candle due to extreme intoxication, lit it. Upon arrival on scene, all hand bones were intact, although completely denuded of flesh. Bleeding was minimal due to cauterization. Interestingly, tendons were still intact, demonstrated when the patient tapped on the hand of said paramedic, COMPLETELY FREAKING HIM THE EFF OUT. So. That's what happens, kids.

roman candle fights, when i was a kid, were the highlight of the 4th...after burgers and dogs, of course

[DarkTranqz]

Some people don't realize the true force behind these things. About 7 years ago now, one of my buddies from high school had a little brother who had just turned 21, drinking with his buddies, and lighting off fireworks on the 4th. One of his brother's buddies had the horrible idea to strap a firework on top of a hard-hat, and have someone wear it and light it off, and I'm not sure, but they were probably trying to record it also. Well, they lit the firework, and when it exploded, the overpressure wave from the explosion ripped through the hard-hat and traveled through his ears and eyes, and essentially liquified part of his brain. Look at what overpressure waves do to organs and flesh in the human body. This video is a good example. He survived part of the night in the ICU, but died the next day. Stay safe out there, people, and always treat fireworks as if they're dangerous, because they certainly are.

[charlotteblackman]

Funniest comeback of the show..."What are you, a cop?"

[saltysavage]

"Based on the high speed, it spent a while in the flames."

"Yeah... I wonder what that's like."

"Okay, you're done."

I busted out laughing on that one!

[mrbushi]

LOL "Must of spent alot of time in the flames!" "Yeah I wonder what thats like" FUCKING killed me

[bluewater]

My aunt’s methed-out husband once tried to launch a mortar firework while holding the launch tube in his lap. Instead of blowing the firework high up into the sky the initial detonation blew out the bottom of the launch tube and pulverized his legs and junk. This caused him to try curling up in pain which caused him to kind of hunch forward over the still-ticking firework sitting in his lap. When the main shell exploded he took it directly to his torso, legs, arms, and face. The damage he suffered was on par with Adam’s RPG accident. He lived but had some pretty gnarly burn scars all over the front of his body.

[vvvxt]

Keep that charred hand as a pointer for future episodes!

[prettyboy]

Roughly 12 years ago. My uncle had a very traumatic injury due to fireworks. For some context, we had golf ball sized fireworks that would output roughly half a stick of dynamite in explosive power, those little bastards would blow a hole in the ground almost a foot deep and roughly a foot around. So needless to say, they pack a punch. But the one he was holding when it exploded prematurely, was the size of a men’s softball. So imagine the sheer destructive difference between the golf ball sized one and the one he was holding. When it exploded, thankfully the only thing that was caught in the blast was his right hand, holding it. But when I say it turned his hand into a red mist, and peeled his skin back like a banana, from his wrist almost 3/4ths the way to his elbow. In the end he lost his hand completely and no fingers or anything were found to reattach. We found a new respect for fireworks after that.

[clintbustwood]

I’m a volunteer Firefighter EMT. Every year we have AT LEAST two firework related injuries. Surprising it’s rarely kids, it’s almost always middle aged men who’ve had a few too many beers. Sparklers and firecrackers every time

UPDATE: just one yesterday. Lady sat on a sparkler

[Snarlacc]

8:05 How to get a permanent "Vulcan salute".
BTW it makes a BIG difference closed vs open fingers. You can hold a firecracker bewteen two fingers, it will feel like your fingers got slapped hard and they'll go numb, but in a closed fiist, it will definately mangle your hand.

[pahtar]

A real life hand held over a Mortar test would have fared much worse. A lot of the energy was converted to motion, the a real hand is typically attached to an arm, something resistant to flying several feet away. And the watermelon shot was epic!

[the_ghost]

4:13 "dont try this at home go to your friendshouse"

[NC-oyhq]

Used to know a guy that made some awesome fireworks. Stopped when a customer got drunk and forgot to throw it … it blew all the fingers off his hand. Dude blamed and never forgave himself until he took his own life a few years later for ruining someone else’s.

[GoddessOfMisfortune]

Unironically the best ad for safety glasses I've ever seen! Oh, the explosions were cool too, I guess!

[TStheDeplorable]

40 years ago I was a park ranger at a giant park that was having 4th of July celebrations all day. Early evening we came under intense fire from drunks shooting roman candles and bottle rockets at us. No one was injured, but I had a bottle rocket fly into my open jacket and explode by my side. Later that night there was a professional fireworks show where they fired the mortars over the large lake in the park. I had the awesome duty of going out on the lake in our boat, parking under the arc of the fireworks, and watching the show from the best seat in the house (just in case a dud fell into the lake, to retrieve it before kids got it -- not sure that would have been healthy for me, but I was young). It was really, really beautiful, magnified by the colors reflecting off the water all around me.

[trashcompactorYT]

I've had a firecracker prematurely detonate in my hand and yeah, it feels like someone hit you in the hand with a hot sledgehammer

[fuzzymanfish]

love how you two just genuinly sound like your having fun this feel like im watching two freids goof off rather than since love it