From: Frankie Wood-Black <fwoodblack90**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Source of the OSHA statement
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:45:23 -0500
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That was the same source that I found as well.

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On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:19 PM, ILPI Support <info**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com> wrote:
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i27/Interpreting-Accident-Data.html and http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i18/Importance-Teaching-Safety.html I suggest contacting the authors of that article to inquire about their statistics..

And from http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/05/explosions_in_the_lab.html, Jim Kaufman is attributed to the sentence "...accidents and injuries occur hundreds of times more frequently in academic labs than in industrial ones."

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On Aug 9, 2016, at 8:08 PM, Melissa Charlton-Smith <melissafcsmith**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM> wrote:

Hi everybody,

ok I have been trying to find the original source for the following statement:

"...Occupational Safety & Health Administration statistics demonstrate that researchers are 11 times more likely to get hurt in an academic lab than in an industrial lab."

I have seen this statement referenced many times in articles. In fact in one of the articles I read it was said to be quote from an interview. Sometimes it is referenced, and then when I track down the reference, it just refers to another article that uses the exact same wording, without a reference. No matter who said it first...where is the research? Where are the statistics? Where is the report? What journal do I find it in?

Thanks everybody, just trying to track down the paper, or the OSHA stats or what have you. I want to USE that information in a report I am working on, but I want a real reference to go by.

Mel Charlton-Smith
NRCC-CHO



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