Downloadable Video: Interviews with fireworks-injury patient, UW Medicine trauma specialist

Teen suffered loss of four fingers; akin to many shell-and-mortar injuries cited by recent research from UW Medicine/ Harborview Medical Center

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Jul 03, 2017, 17:19 ET

SEATTLE, July 3, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kurtis Musewicz's experience presents a fireworks caution.  On June 23, 2017, with friends in Tacoma's "Firecracker Alley," the teen found a discarded unexploded shell, lit the fuse and suffered severe injuries, including the loss of four fingers on his left hand. He received emergency care at UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Kurtis Musewicz, 17, of Tacoma, Washington, lost four fingers on his left hand in a fireworks explosion on June 23, 2017.
Kurtis Musewicz, 17, of Tacoma, Washington, lost four fingers on his left hand in a fireworks explosion on June 23, 2017.

Web and broadcast video assets can be downloaded from this Google Drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B81eoU9Gvp9eX21LNEprSC0xZ0U?usp=sharing 
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The content includes:

  • an interview with Mr. Musewicz
  • b-roll footage of Tacoma's "Firecracker Alley," where the injury occurred
  • comments from injury-prevention specialist Dr. Monica Vavilala about recent UW Medicine research on the outsize danger of mortar-and-shell fireworks.

NOTE: Mr. Musewicz's comments are being made available on video as he has been discharged from Harborview Medical Center.

SOURCE UW Medicine

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