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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: cavanaughmm**At_Symbol_Here**APPSTATE.EDU
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From: "Mary M. Cavanaugh" <cavanaughmm**At_Symbol_Here**APPSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Two Recent Lab Hazmat Responses
In-Reply-To: <670FF300-A229-408D-92CB-E72DF3498BE1**At_Symbol_Here**uvm.edu>

=22When firefighters arrived at the third-floor chemistry lab in the mul
tipurpose
classroom building on the west side of campus, the instructor had alre
ady begun
using sodium bicarbonate to neutralize the chemical. =22

It=27s not clear that the instructor was using sodium bicarbonate to neu
tralize
the chemical on his/her body, but that=27s the way I read it (the writ
er could
have meant that the instructor was using sodium bicarb to neutralize the
 spilled
acid on the floor).  Assuming that=27s the case, one has to wonder h
ow much less
severe the instructor=27s burns would have been had he flushed with copi
ous
amounts of water instead.

----- Original Message -----
From=3A List Moderator =3Cecgrants=40UVM.EDU=3E
Date=3A Wednesday, March 4, 2009 2=3A03 pm
Subject=3A =5BDCHAS-L=5D Two Recent Lab Hazmat Responses
To=3A DCHAS-L=40LIST.UVM.EDU

=3E .
=3E March 1, Idaho Statesman - (Idaho) Chemical spill injures Boise 

=3E State  

=3E lab manager in Boise. A Boise State University lab instructor was 
 

=3E wounded at about 2 p.m. on February 28 when 500 ml of nitric aci
d  

=3E spilled onto his wrist, forearm, thigh, and knee, according 
to a  

=3E police spokeswoman. When firefighters arrived at the third-floor  

=3E chemistry lab in the multipurpose classroom building on the west 

=3E side  

=3E of campus, the instructor had already begun using sodium 

=3E bicarbonate  

=3E to neutralize the chemical. He was taken to Saint Alphonsus 

=3E Regional  

=3E Medical Center for burn treatment. About 60 people, including tw
o  

=3E uninjured lab students, were evacuated as the building was checked
 

=3E and  

=3E the spill cleaned up. The incident did not affect classes or other
  

=3E activities on campus.
=3E 

=3E Source=3A http=3A//www.idahostatesman.com/boise/story/683419.h
tml
=3E

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