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It's interesting reading the discussion about injuries related to fireworks.
Many many years ago when I was researching the twists and turns involved in obtaining a pyrotechnics manufacturers licence, I came upon a government website(may have been military, army?) that listed every reported case of civilian injury due to an explosive going back into the sixties or seventies... it was interesting to note that the rate of injury did not appear to decrease after fireworks were banned in WA, there were still injuries due to people improvising their own devices made from matches or powder salvaged from flares etc. materials gathered from garden sheds....
Also injuries due to using dangerous materials to construct devices, like PVC pipe, these people probably thought 'oh it's only a plastic, it will melt' but noooo, PVC shatters into sharp splinters, very very very nasty when flying thru the air like a bullet.
Wish I could remember where the site was, but it was over 10 years ago so......
should still be something there if anyone wishes to go digging through the ".gov.au" websites.
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