Akron, OH — There was a small chemical explosion this past Tuesday (September 15, 2015) that injured a graduate student who was working in a lab at the Engineering Research Center at the University of Akron’s main campus. The accident caused facial injuries to the grad student and they were sent to a hospital to be treated.
The reports said that the student was working with “alloocimene” that evening, around 5:00 p.m., when the explosion occurred. Officials at the school assured the news that the grad student was wearing the proper safety equipment, but was somehow still injured.
This is going to be investigated further, we’re told, but no updates have been issued in the past week.
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Commentary:
Accidents that happen at schools are tough situations, legally speaking, because school are afforded an awful lot of protection from things like lawsuits and claims against them for negligence. I’m not quite sure what caused this explosion (was the student given bad instructions? Was anything mislabeled and therefore misused?), but I think we can all agree what while labs are inherently risky places, schools should be safe environments for learning. Depending on how the explosion happened and whether any negligence contributed to it may determine whether the school is able to hide behind government protection or whether they’ll have to take responsibility for what happened.
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