Abstract
A RECENT ACCIDENT in a chemistry department laboratory at Texas Tech University will be investigated by the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), Chairman John Bresland announced on Jan. 19. The investigation at the Lubbock, Texas, university will be CSB’s first examination of an accident in an academic research lab. One student, Preston Brown, 29, was seriously injured in the Jan. 7 accident and remains in critical condition, according to Eric Finley, a spokesman with University Medical Center in Lubbock. Brown is being treated in the hospital’s burn center, where he has been since the accident. Initially, press accounts said two students were injured; however, university officials say only one was hurt. Brown received severe burns and lacerations to his face and hands when a mixture of nickel hydrazine perchlorate exploded during the afternoon accident in Texas Tech’s chemistry building, according to a police report. University officials told CSB the accident involved the ...
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