Snoods
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The Daily Mail always delivers with their pictures! OMG at her bloody footprints. It looks like she calmly walked away.
I need someone smerter than me to figure out if she has a legit claim, or if this was a disaster of her own making.
On the one hand, it seems strange that her superiors would straight up refuse to provide her with safety training if she asked. But on the other hand, if the tanks weren't designed for flammable gasses, I don't blame her for being up in arms about it.
In the explosion, Thea Ekins-Coward lost her right arm above her elbow. She suffered facial burns, abrasions to her cornea and nerve damage to her ears that led to high frequency hearing loss.
She was working on research to produce liquid fuel from synthetic gases such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide.
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The complaint alleges the university and researchers Jian Yu and Richard Rocheleau failed to provide her with adequate safety training and adhere to safety codes.
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The lawsuit filed by Ekins Coward and her wife says that allegedly the university and Yu told Ekins-Coward to use dangerous tanks unsuitable for use.
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Ekins-Coward asked for safety training on October 7, 2015 but Yu refused, the complaint said.
The university hired the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety to investigate the cause of the blast. The investigation found static electricity released into a tank most likely caused the explosion.
More at link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rm-blast-sues-University-Hawaii.html#comments