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Lab Safety

Postdoctoral Researcher Killed In Fire At Tsinghua University

Lab Safety: Accident happened during an experiment that may have involved hydrogen

by Jyllian N. Kemsley
December 22, 2015
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Tsinghua’s Ho Tim chemistry building was the location of a fire that killed researcher Xiangjian Meng on Dec. 18.
Photo of Tsinghua Ho Tim building after the fire.
Credit: Rolex Dela Peña/EPA/Newscom
Tsinghua’s Ho Tim chemistry building was the location of a fire that killed researcher Xiangjian Meng on Dec. 18.

A postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University was killed in a Dec. 18 fire in a chemistry laboratory on the Beijing campus, according to a university statement on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

Local media report that the deceased researcher is Xiangjian Meng, 32. He received a Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2014.

As of C&EN press time, Tsinghua University had not released any details about the incident and former chemistry department chair Xi Zhang did not respond to an e-mail request for information.

The Beijing work safety authority said that the incident happened during an experiment involving hydrogen, reported Xinhua, China’s official news agency, in a Dec. 19 story. Earlier reports that the incident involved tert-butyllithium were incorrect, according to a post from a relative of Meng on Weibo.

Exterior photos and video of Tsinghua’s Ho Tim building taken during the fire and posted online at on.cc show broken windows and heavy black smoke. An interior photo of the lab taken by a Beijing News reporter indicates heavy damage to the lab.

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