Student’s face burnt in science accident

Posted on the ABC on the 6th, the article is a short news story on a chemestry accident went wrong.

An 18-year-old man is in hospital with acid burns after a chemistry experiment went wrong at a Melbourne school.

The student was taking part in the experiment in the yard of the South Yarra school, in Melbourne’s inner south-east, when a container of acid was dropped and he was splashed in the face.

He is being treated for minor burns to the forehead.

The 3 sentence article covers the who, what, where and how, but the reader is left without a when. It was interesting have this tagged as education, even though it happened at a school, it does not really have that much to do with education. However, soem follow up stories would be an investigation into saftey in school science labs and any other similar incidents that have occured in the past.