Laboratory Safety

I found about half a kilogram of dry picric acid in a lab not in any way suited for handling explosives a few days ago. It's been sitting in a jar since the fall of the Soviet Union and nobody bothered to dispose of it or even just pour water into the jar.

Was transporting a waste carboy between two carts to be purged and had the bottom crack clean off in my hand, cut the shit out of my fingers and got waste water all over myself. Had to wear the EHS officer's spare pants (he's a giant, i'm a wiry manlet) on the ride home and felt like fucking Jared Fogle post-diet.

Broken Centrifuge. Bored tech with tools "fixed" it. Centrifuge proceeds to rev up uncontrollably, explode. Steel pieces embedded in wall, tech clutching ears from bang that woke up people 100 feet away.

>He was very sure that I could not get malaria this way but became progressively more and more concerned as he walked in and out of the room
This is the best and worst visualization

Happy you're okay user

This is my nightmare

Fucking electrophoresis probably gave me a bunch of different types of cancer.

Mostly fucking cuntbags mopping floors while work is still going on. Goddamn.

In highschool my chemistry teacher burned a hole through his shoe and burned his pinky toe while showing us thermite
I'm in electrical engineering now and some people in my class have had electrical "incidents"

>Apparently even liquid nitrogen tanks can be dangerous, there was an incident recently at Texas A&M where one of these exploded causing building damage but thankfully no one was hurt, pics here:
That was a very poorly maintained canister. If anything, rather than walking on eggshells around liquid nitrogen like a pussy, what it means is that you have to make sure the safety valves are in working condition.

Also I don't see how the fuck you can die from spilling a few drops of methylmercury on your gloves.

Pics or it didn't happen