A Brooklyn man was arrested Thursday on charges that he threw a powerful firework into a Verizon utility van during a road rage incident earlier this year, authorities said.

Kevindale Nurse, 36, was driving an unlicensed passenger van on Jan. 31 at around 7:30 p.m., with his four-year-old son in the vehicle when he pulled in front of the Verizon van, according to a news release. Two Verizon repairmen were in that vehicle traveling between jobs working on high-speed data lines and fiber optic equipment at the time.

Nurse’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Surveillance footage showed Nurse driving “erratically” before stopping next to the Verizon van at the corner of President Street and Brooklyn Avenue in Crown Heights, according to federal prosecutors.

Nurse then threw the explosive device into the driver’s side window of the Verizon van. A bright explosion occurred inside the van, which drifted into the active intersection, prosecutors said.

The Verizon repairmen were injured, and the van was “extensively damaged,” according to prosecutors.

“Had the equipment caught fire or exploded, the results could have been tragic,” prosecutors wrote in the news release.

“Unfortunately, road rage is an all-too common occurrence in our communities,” Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in the news release. “But this dangerous and senseless attack on a busy intersection in the heart of Brooklyn was beyond the pale. We will vigorously prosecute this case.”

Officials have not said why Nurse had a powerful firework in his car. If convicted, prosecutors said he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years, and a maximum of 40 years in prison.