Caltech Student Injured in Chemistry Experiment
From Times Staff Reports
A 29-year-old post-doctoral student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena was injured Friday when his chemistry experiment exploded, cutting his face with shards of glass and burning his skin, officials said.
The man, whom officials declined to name, was treated at a hospital for wounds that were not life-threatening.
He had been working with unspecified types of acid in a lab in the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology when the explosion occurred at 8:34 a.m.
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