We had an incident last April with a glass vacuum tube as you described. You can find the incident at the following link: http://risk.arizona.edu/healthandsafety/chemicalsafetybulletins/explosion042008.shtml Cynthia A. Runkel-Grant Chemical Hygiene Officer Chemistry Preproom Manager University of Arizona Chemistry Department Koffler 315 520-621-9979 At 09:14 AM 9/11/2008 -0400, ILPI wrote: >>Has anyone encountered accidents involving glass pressure tubes which >>were commonly used for organic synthesis in research labs? One example >>of this can be found from Ace glassware >>http://www.aceglass.com/html/2008/html/index_html.php?page=714 >> >>We recently had an accident involving such a pressure tube which was >>used for an organic reaction involving phenylmalemide, triphenylphospine >>and para-formaldehyde in 3.4ml acetic acid, injuring 2 students who are >>working in front of the fumehood. We are still investigating the >>accident but initial assessment points to lack of hazard analysis as >>well as other safety lapses. >> >> >>Regards >>Khaiseng >>Department of Chemistry >>National University of Singapore >>khaiseng**At_Symbol_Here**nus.edu.sg
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