• Question: Jamil have u eve hurt yourself doing experiments

    Asked by anon-294364 to Sujit, Jamil on 15 May 2021.
    • Photo: Sujit Bhattacharya

      Sujit Bhattacharya answered on 15 May 2021:

      I have not really hurt myself while doing experiments but have withness one of my friends burning his fingers while soldering.

      The lesson learnt was not to get distracted when using a hot soldering iron.

    • Photo: Jamil Jubrail

      Jamil Jubrail answered on 16 May 2021:

      I wouldn’t say I have ever seriously injured myself, but I have had a lot of cuts, bruises, random injections with chemicals which are classed as accidents. Sometimes I have made mistakes in the lab which are dangerous e.g. putting a plastic pot on a hot plate instead of a mixer and it slowly melting and filling the lab with smoke!

Comments

  • Photo: Emma

    Emma commented on :

    I accidentally cracked a microscope slide into my finger!! I had to go to the hospital and a poor doctor had to pick the glass out and stitch my finger back up! I have a tiny little scar to show for it! Always be careful with glass!

  • Photo: Philip

    Philip commented on :

    I have a scar on my finger from trying to open glass bottle. It had sealed shut in a reaction and had a little glass side arm. I tried to turn it to open it and the sidearm snapped and but my finger. I have seen more serious accidents, people with hands on fire from handling flammable solvents and laboratory glasses covered in acid where a reaction exploded as someone looked in. You should always follow the safety procedures! I am also a train first aider to help if something does go wrong and I am around!

  • Photo: Jennifer

    Jennifer commented on :

    I once got a nasty liquid nitrogen burn in my first year of undergraduate labs! I was wearing all my protective gear correctly but I fainted and some liquid nitrogen got stuck in my glove. This is dangerous because the liquid nitrogen can’t evaporate off and so it has to go down into your skin. A cold burn is like a hot burn but worse, my thumb got a HUGE blister and basically doubled in size in every direction. A couple of days later, when the pressure got too much, I slit it and then looked after it until the skin healed. I have a little white mark on my thumb but nothing too bad – it could have been a lot worse!