One researcher was killed and three were injured Wednesday (December 5) after a gas cylinder exploded at the Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock Wave Research of the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, Science reports. The cause of the explosion in unclear. However, two professors have been arrested for negligence, according to The News Minute, a Benguluru-based publication.
The researcher killed was 32-year-old Manoj Kumar, an employee of the start-up Super-Wave Technology. He was flung 20 feet and died instantly, MR Chandrashekhar, security chief of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), tells New Delhi Television (NDTV). The three injured researchers, fellow start-up employees, were taken to the hospital with burns and fractures and are reported to need surgery and intensive care.
“It is the first time that something like this has happened in IISc,” Chandrashekhar tells NDTV. It’s thought to be the first lab accident to occur at the ...
