According to Prevent Blindness America, there are  approximately 2,000 fireworks-related eye injuries in the United States each year. More than three-quarters of fireworks-related eye injuries occur during the Fourth of July holiday. The American Academy of Ophthalmology says that about one-third of those resulted in permanent eye damage and one fourth resulted in permanent eye loss or legal blindness. One in ten required the removal of the eye.
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