Hello Everyone,

I wanted to share with you the news of a terrible accident that killed a postdoctoral researcher in a chemistry laboratory fire at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, on Friday, December 18, 2015. The researcher was working in the lab at the time of the explosion and fire.

The cause of the explosion is still under investigation, but it is believed that the incident happened during an experiment involving hydrogen.

Please follow the link below to find some information regarding this tragic incident:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2015/12/Postdoctoral-Researcher-Killed-Fire-Tsinghua.html

Sincerely,

Gabriela

On behalf of the ChE Safety Committee

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Gabriela Nagy, PhD

Industrial Education Director

ChE Safety Committee Chair

School of Chemical Engineering

Room FRNY G041D

Purdue University

Tel: (765)-496-1710

E-mail: nagyg@purdue.edu