/r/promptcritical
A subreddit dedicated to exploring, sharing and learning from lab and industrial scientific accidents.
A place for discussion and links pertaining to scientific accidents. This subreddit seeks to allow learning through others mistakes. When possible please do not use wikipedia entries, either find the original or authoritative source (Exceptions are allowed when wikipedia represents the most comprehensive record)
Suitable topics include:
- Chemical
- Biological
- Radiological
- Deaths, injury or damage due to uncontrolled reactions.
- Historical or current lab accidents or criticality events.
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- Youtube videos of home science experiments gone wrong
- Gore
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Quench!
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FSU Mag Lab Fatal Accident
There was a fatal accident fairly recently (within a year) at the Florida State Mag Lab. Before any discussion, I would like to offer my condolences to the family of the worker lost.
The incident involved the cooling system of one of the still under construction high powered magnets (Cell 14). A worker was asked to remove a flange that was covering a water pipe that was going to be attached to the magnet. He was asked to do this so a welder could take some measurements before connecting the magnet. It turns out that the flange was still under pressure and when the worker tried to remove it, it exploded off killing him. The flange exploded with the force of 0.9 lbs of TNT. For more information see the link below.
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See related documents for a technical report and exact reasons why this horrible incident happened.
Again my condolences to the family of the lost worker. This incident shows how deadly high pressure systems can be.
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