9 Jan
2006
9 Jan
'06
10:27 p.m.
Our local city high school was closed for about 3 days
while a Hazmat
team cleaned up a dropped [vial] of mercury. Some kid found it and
brought it to school, then dropped it by accident! I'm not sure if
that was a massive over reaction, or not. Is mercury really that
much of a hazzard?
I'd say it was a severe overreaction, as far as the actual hazard from
the mercury itself goes - not that I'm any hazmat specialist, but given
the historical damage from mercury and the amount of mercury it took to
produce it, I have trouble getting too concerned over one small vial of
the stuff.
I note you signed as being in the USA, though, so it probably was not
an overreaction as far as the legal hazard of responding with anything
milder goes, unfortunately.
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