Laboratories are generally safe places, but sometimes a minor mistake can have consequences that go far beyond allergies or rashes. This is a selection of tragic incidents reported in the media over the past 15 years; they demonstrate the importance of taking great care in the lab.rnA research assistant died in January this year from burns sustained in a university chemistry laboratory in California. Sheharbano Sangji had been working in the lab for only a few months when the plunger popped out of the syringe she was using to transfer tert-butyl lithium -which ignites spontaneously in air - causing her gloves and jumper to catch fire.rnA chance splash of primate fluids cost research assistant Elizabeth Griffin her life in a 1997 incident at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center research centre in Georgia. Because the rhesus macaques under study were caged, Griffin did not use safety glasses for the procedure being done.
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