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Lab Safety in the News

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

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

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