Word: spills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 20, two weeks after the Mallinckrodt spill, another spill forced complete evacuation of Harvard Medical School's Seely G. Mudd Building. A faulty refrigerator shelf broke, causing bottles to break and chemicals to mix. The seven people in the building at the time left uninjured...
...phosphorous acid spill in the Lyman Physics Laboratories followed a week later, requiring the evacuation of the Lyman, Jefferson and Cruft laboratories. The chemical was leaking from a container in the basement machine shop of Lyman...
...hazardous waste response team, a unit of CFD, contained the spill within an hour and a half...
...Once a spill has occurred, the response spreads from the laboratory to the surrounding community...
Hazardous waste is stored in capped cylinders and segregated by types of waste under ventilated hoods. The cylinders lie in secondary containers, in case they spill. All cylinders are labeled with the chemical name, hazards and dates. Cylinders are inspected by safety officers once a week and by external companies twice a week...