SPRING, Texas — Three sanitation workers were taken to a hospital after a container of muriatic acid burst while they were collecting and compacting trash on Saturday, according to the Spring ...

Incorrect temperatures, contamination from nearby samples, and freeze-thawing can all have detrimental effects on nucleic acid samples ... or lack of appropriate pre- and post-extraction storage ...

Turns out, a container of muriatic acid—commonly used for cleaning and pool maintenance—had been unknowingly tossed into the garbage. Firefighters say once the trash truck compacted the load ...

Sanitation workers and firefighters in a Texas neighborhood where a container of acid burst in a trash truck, exposing one worker and requiring a hazmat team to respond. Spring Fire Department on ...