LOS ANGELES (USANN4) — UCLA announces plans to open a Center for Laboratory Safety. The move comes after a fatal fire in the school’s organic-chemistry lab in 2008. A staff researcher died of severe burns after she was splashed with a volatile chemical compound that ignited.
UCLA says the first-of-its-kind lab-safety center will receive $400,000 in initial campus support. However, the university adds it will eventually be supported entirely by external grants.
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