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CPSC urges fireworks safety during Independence Day holiday

July 1st, 2009 joshua

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging all residents to exercise the utmost caution with fireworks during the Independence Day holiday.

In making its annual appeal for safety with fireworks during the weeks surrounding July 4, the CPSC also announced that fireworks-related accidents and deaths decreased from 2007 to 2008.

According to the CPSC, seven people died from fireworks accidents last year and more than 7,000 visited emergency rooms. In 2007, 11 people died and more than 11,000 visited the hospital because of fireworks.

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