As nature has characterized as the first time, a scientific study has had an academic lab accident at the University of California safety death, Los Angeles faculty member Patrick Harran will be judged by the accident in 2008 with a research assistant Sheharbano Sangji.
Sangji died from burns suffered as a result of tert-butylilithiumm manipulation safety death. Chemical and Engineering News has extensively covered the event and I encourage you to read it to better understand the specifics of the accident and the associated costs.
Harran and the UC Regents were charged in late 2011 with the intentional violation of safety standards and laboratory health. In the summer of 2012 safety death, the Regents were dismissed from the case after an agreement between the parties.
This agreement includes an admission of liability shoddy lab, better global security laboratory support, a scholarship on behalf of the victim safety death, and penalties (in addition to the fines already mentioned).
Lawyers Harran offered a vigorous defense, and given that the charges in question involve deliberate violation of rules (rather than negligence, which could become easy loading), the outcome of the trial is far from certain safety death. Settlement Negotiation / reason can still take place, Dr. Harran may be found not guilty, or could serve as much as four and a half years if convicted.
What is much less clear is the impact that this case may have on the behavior of universities safety death, laboratory directors and researchers monitoring. Lab Safety seems an afterthought in many laboratories.
Maybe someone can go to jail because a change in the action, but I fear that will not be enough safety death. It might be too easy to dismiss this case as a special case, and continue the lax attitude to safety that caused the loss of many lives.
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