Short Fireworks Fuse Blamed for Loss of Limb on Long Island 3.56K Jeff Neumann 07/04/10 09:02AM Filed to: Ouch Ouch Accidents New York Fourth Of July Fireworks Long Island New York's first major Fourth of July fireworks-related casualty: A man on Long Island yesterday blew his arm off using a mortar tube. His friends packed the limb into a cooler with ice, and doctors are trying to reattach it.