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Did you know that EHS has guidance about lithium polymer batteries? Click here to view.
Please take a few moments to review the incident in the link and think about how the causes and corrective actions might apply to your lab.
A detailed report on the March 16 UHawaii incident concludes that an electrostatic discharge (static electricity) was the cause of the explosion of the flammable gas mixture used, NOT that a pressure gauge that was not intrinsically safe caused a spark (which is what the fire department...
An explosion at the University of Hawaii that caused a researcher to lose an arm appears to have been caused by a spark from a digital pressure gauge that was not designed for use with flammable gases. Not surprisingly, there are many other contrbuting factors; click the link below and also...