Sunday, January 16, 2011

RIP Sheri Sangji

Two years ago today, Sherharbano (Sheri) Sangji died of her injuries sustained while running a reaction with tert-butyl lithium in the laboratory of Professor Patrick Harran at UCLA. Two years later, the Los Angeles district attorney has still apparently not decided upon the fate of her case.

There's a lot that has been said already about the general state of academic lab safety (poor) and the specifics of her case (tragic, sad, frustrating); I can't really think of anything new.

My thoughts are with her friends and family.


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  1. bad wolfJanuary 17, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    i see... i remembered that the accident itself happened between Xmas and New Year's (Dec. 29), but had forgotten that she passed away this much later. For me that was a particularly damning part of the story--working during an all-campus holiday, which is by itself borderline abusive, but which virtually guarantees a slow and insufficient response from so few people around.

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