Biosafety

• 2015: Accidental Select Agent Release at Tulane
• 2012: Lab Acquired Infection Kills Researcher
• 2009: University of Chicago Researcher Dies of Plague

Chemical Reaction

• 2015: Texas Tech Acid Waste Explosion
• 2015: University of California Berkeley Explosion
• 2014: University of Minnesota Laboratory Explosion
• 2014: University of Rochester Laboratory Explosion

Chemical Exposure

• 2009: Chemist Dies From Trimethylsilyldiazomethane Exposure
• 1999: Lab Assistant Asphyxiated From Liquid Nitrogen Spill
• 1997: Dimethylmercury Exposure Kills Dartmouth Researcher

Laboratory Fires

• 2015: Laboratory Fire Western Washington University
• 2009: UCLA Researcher Dies from Pyrophoric Chemical Burns
• 2005: Ohio State Laboratory Fire
• 2003: Kansas State Postdoctoral Researcher Burned in Fire

Equipment

• 2016: University of Hawaii Postdoc Loses Arm in Explosion
• 2012: University of Texas Laboratory Explosion
• 2011: Yale Student Killed by Lathe in Chemistry Lab
• 2006: Nitrogen Dewar Destroys Laboratory at Texas A&M
• 2005: Cleveland State University Biologist Electrocuted

Laboratory Security

• 2013: UC Davis Postdoc Steals Lab Chemicals to Make Explosives
• 2009: Harvard Microbiologists Poisoned with Sodium Azide
• 2004: University of Iowa Break In at Animal Research Lab