Another Undetonated Firework Found During Sweep of Stoughton High Baseball Field

Article originally posted at 3:25 p.m. and updated at 5:40 p.m.

Another undetonated firework was found during a Wednesday afternoon sweep of the , Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff said.

This comes a day after an when a landscaper went over it with a lawnmower when cutting the grass in left center field of the Anthony Novello baseball field. There were luckily no injuries in Tuesday's incident.

The undetonated firework found on July 11 was also in left field, in close proximity to the one which .

The July 11 field sweep started around 1 p.m. The Massachusetts State Police bomb squad detonated the firework around 3:30 p.m.

Dolloff said the device was rendered safe by detonating it.

"The field has been checked to the best of our ability," Dolloff said. "So at this time we feel we have taken every precaution."

The was described as a square-shaped white object. Meanwhile the firework found on Wednesday was about the size of a baseball in brown wrapping, Dolloff said.

Officials determined that these are leftover fireworks from Stoughton's annual Independence Day fireworks show the evening of July 3.

Pyrotecnico, the Pennsylvania-based company in charge of the fireworks show in Stoughton, has had their after they left behind unexploded fireworks from shows they did this July 4th season in Ware, Waltham and Worcester, in addition to Stoughton, according to the Boston Globe.

Mike Noble of the State Police bomb squad said the firework found Wednesday launched that way it was supposed to on July 3 but it didn't explode in the sky as intended, instead falling to the ground undetonated.

State Police dug a hole near where the firework was found, placed the firework in the hole and used a higher explosive to detonate it Wednesday afternoon.

Because a higher explosive was used on Wednesday, the explosion caused by the lawnmower on Tuesday was not as powerful, Noble said. The lawnmower actually acted as a shield for the maintenance worker, Noble said.

These undetonated fireworks pose a high risk, however.

"That piece of pyrotechnic could have blown your hand off and potentially killed you," Noble said. "Any type of impact could have created static electricity."

The Novello field, situated across from the high school football field, is the home to the Stoughton High baseball team during the school year and to the Stoughton American Legion baseball team in the summer. It is also the general area where the fireworks are set off during the in Stoughton.

Following the town's fireworks show on July 3 the legion baseball team has played two games and has had a practice on the field.

"It's pretty scary," Stoughton Legion coach Jim Derochea said. "Knowing how powerful those fireworks could be...it could have been dangerous or worse."

Derochea said the situation was "unsettling" but said "[we are] counting our blessings that nothing happened other than a little damage to a lawnmower."

After Tuesday's incident, the Stoughton Fire Department, Stoughton Public Schools and Stoughton Recreation Department chose to take a "proactive approach" and sweep the field on Wednesday, Dolloff said.

"It seemed like the prudent thing to do," Recreation Department head John Denison added.

Dolloff said Pyrotecnico swept the field July 4th, informing the Fire Department at 6:30 that morning that a light check had been done.

Dolloff cautions that if anyone finds any unusual objects in the future, to be sure not to touch or move the object, to leave it in place, and call 9-1-1 immediately.