Several injured in Reno as experiment goes awry at Discovery Museum
Source: Reno Gazette-Journal
A science experiment went awry at the Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum, creating a chemical flash that injured up to 13 Wednesday in Reno, officials said.
Of those 13, eight children and an adult were transported to Renown Regional Medical Center, the city said in a statement.
Primary injuries include minor burns and minor smoke inhalation, the statement said.
Four people were treated at the scene and released, Reno police officer Tim Broadway said earlier.
Read more: http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/03/explosion-reported-in-reno/15044399/
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Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Rincewind
(1,203 posts)they'll blame Obama.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)cactusfractal
(496 posts)Good god, don't they know that hospitals kill a million people a year?
See? This is what happens when people have access to science. That stuff is dangerous and needs to stay locked up safely in biotech, Pharma and munitions factories, WHERE IT BELONGS!
father founding
(619 posts)That will teach them to fool with that new fangled science thing.