Fireworks a Hot Safety Topic at Sporting Events

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Ooc 708 Ab When a Colorado Springs Sky Sox player hits a pitch out of Security Service Field these days, the home crowd cheers the home run, but the celebration is no longer punctuated by the percussive "boom" of a fireworks shell. That bit of fanfare has been missing from the minor-league ballpark since May of last year, when Sky Sox marketing director and trained pyrotechnician Rai Henniger was hit in the face by a spherical titanium shell that accidentally launched from its mortar tube as he was going through his pregame rigging regimen. The shell never detonated, but the blunt-force trauma alone cost Henniger his nose and left eye - and nearly his life. Only the quick response of the Sky Sox groundskeeper and two Iraq War veterans on hand for that night's game kept a still-conscious Henniger from bleeding to death on the ground behind the left-field scoreboard.

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