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Meanwhile, Charles I. Maidanick '56, who was seriously injured in Friday's accident, is reported in good condition at Massachusetts General Hospital. He still has a piece of glass lodged in the cornea of his left eye, however, and can do no more with that organ than detect light and darkness...
...experiment on which Maidanick was working when the Mallinckrodt explosion occurred was the preparation of a sulfoxide--a special project not previously performed in the course, According to Kochi it was considered "quite an ordinary preparation," however, and had never been reported as dangerous...
Edwin F. Ullman, Maidanick's section instructor, is now investigating the reaction in order to discover what caused the explosion...
Kochi was working in his office adjoining the lab when the accident occurred. His first reaction when he heard the noise, he says, was simply to run out and see what caused it. The blast completely demolished the beaker with which Maidanick was working and slightly injured the two other students who were standing nearby, but it caused no damage to the lab itself...
...Besides Maidanick, the two injured were Albert J. McLaughlin, Jr. '55 and Peter A. Mattson '56. McLaughlin, suffering from cuts on the neck and back which resulted from flying glass, was hospitalized but discharged...