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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Laboratory accident stats?
Date: Monday, November 9, 2020 at 1:48:45 PM
Author: Shannon Nephew <millersc**At_Symbol_Here**PLATTSBURGH.EDU> 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Laboratory accident stats?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:25:05 -0500
Author: Richard Palluzi

From: Jeffrey Lewin <jclewin**At_Symbol_Here**MTU.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Laboratory accident stats?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 15:31:36 -0500
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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Someone might have more granular data, but for the big picture I use this in my slides. It is, certainly, an underestimation.

Jeff

  • The Chemical Safety Board has collected chemical incidents that "occurred in public and private research laboratories, universities, high schools, middle schools elementary schools, the National Laboratories, state-run laboratories and educational demonstrations."

  • From 1998-2018 (20 years) they recorded:

    • 260 incidents, that caused

    • 10 fatalities and

    • 489 injuries


More details are available at:

https://www.csb..gov/assets/1/6/csb_laboratory_incident_data.pdf

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 2:22 PM Shannon Nephew <millersc**At_Symbol_Here**plattsburgh.edu> wrote:
Hello,

I have a faculty member who is looking for the following:

"Do you know if there are statistics available for how many (teaching) lab accidents are caused by instructors with a lack of experience/training? Another good statistic might be how many lab accidents occur in each kind of chem lab in a typical year. "

They would like to use this information to make a case for hiring more qualified instructors in general and organic chemistry laboratories. I do realize that near misses and smaller incidents/accidents may not be as readily reported by these less experienced instructors, so this data might be tricky to obtain.

I appreciate any help you can provide!

Shannon

SHANNON C. NEPHEW,
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