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Jacksonville Chemical Plant Explosion Wednesday December 19 th 4 dead. 1997. Elizabeth Griffin, 22, died 6 weeks after a rhesus Monkey threw feces, saliva, bedding and urine in her eye. The monkey has herpes-b virus. Elizabeth was not wearing eye protection.
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Jacksonville Chemical Plant Explosion Wednesday December 19th 4 dead
1997 • Elizabeth Griffin, 22, died 6 weeks after a rhesus Monkey threw feces, saliva, bedding and urine in her eye. The monkey has herpes-b virus. Elizabeth was not wearing eye protection. • Dartmouth College Chemisty Professor, Karen Wetterhahn, died in June after spending several months in a coma following over exposure to dimethylmercury.
A chemistry experiment went awry at Federal Way High School in Seattle, burning 3 students and a teacher. I never saw anything like it," said student Diana Solis, who was in the chemistry lab when the blast occurred.
2005 • Washington, DC Cardozo High School was evacuated and closed following a mercury spill. • Two Huntington Beach High School (California) seniors were badly burned on the last day of school attempting to perform a demo with methanol. One student was burned over 40% of his body.
A Ph.D. research student, performing an experiment inside a fumehood, was injured by flying glass shards, which were generated from an explosion that occurred in a reaction flask