Friday, March 13, 2015

BUILDING EVACUATED AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY DURING A LAB EXPERIMENT.




MARCH 13, 2015

FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA

Police and firefighters were at North Dakota State University Friday morning after a chemical spill in a research building.

Two students were working in a lab in the Research I building at 8:45 a.m. “when a bottle containing a chemical broke,” according to a statement posted on NDSU’s Facebook page.

The building, which is on the north side of campus, was evacuated and all safety protocols were followed, the university said in the post. 

No one was injured.

University police and the Fargo Fire Department are assessing the spill, which will be cleaned up according to safety protocols, the post said.