PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NY –A 29-year-old man was seriously injured when a firework exploded in his face on the Fourth of July on Long Island, police said.

According to Suffolk police, Carlos Diaz was attending a family gathering in the backyard of a home on Robert Court in Port Jefferson when he attempted to light a mortar-style firework at about 10:05 p.m. The device exploded and struck Diaz in the face, severely injuring one of his eyes.

Diaz, of Port Jefferson Station, was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.

Consumer fireworks are illegal in New York, but they were certainly abundant in Long Island skies Saturday night.

On average, 180 people go to the emergency room every day in the United States with fireworks-related injuries during the month around the Fourth of July holiday.

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