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Associated Press
Students injured in lab explosion
| Location | Date of Incident | ||
| LOS ANGELES, California , United States | 07/27/2004- 9:00 PM | ||
| Date of Report Update | |||
| 07/28/2004 - 5:54 PM | |||
| Incident Types | Location Types | ||
| - Explosion | Fixed Facility | ||
| Evacuations | Injuries | Fatalities | |
| None Reported | 3 | 0 | |
| Chemicals Involved | |||
| - Nitric Acid | |||
| Description or Latest Development | |||
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----- Two women and one man were hospitalized but their injuries were not serious. Nothing caught fire and nobody was harmed in the blast at the Los Angeles campus shortly after 9 p.m., fire officials said. A professor in the room during the blast said the acid container exploded shortly after it was capped. Firefighters contained the gallon of spilled acid and a number of people were evacuated from the science building at the California State University, Los Angeles, campus. Fire department spokesman Brian Humphrey said the spilled acid posed no danger to the surrounding residential area known as University Heights.
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07/28/2004 | ||