Every Independence Day, a viral photo apparently showing hand X-rays after firework injuries is shared as a warning. We traced the origin of each X-ray photo.

The Fram2 crew recreated that X-ray portrait in microgravity roughly 200 miles above the Earth’s surface. The image was captured within a four-person space capsule traveling at 17,500 mph.

LOS ANGELES - A woman mistakenly put her 1-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport last weekend, authorities said. Skip to main content Skip to main ...

One of the X-rays first appeared online in a 2021 Wisconsin-area news article about a man who lost his hand to a firework blast in 2020. The X-ray was of his hand, which was amputated and replaced ...

Every Independence Day, a viral photo apparently showing hand X-rays after firework injuries is shared as a warning. We traced the origin of each X-ray photo.