Incorrect temperatures, contamination from nearby samples, and freeze-thawing can all have detrimental effects on nucleic acid samples. While labs may sometimes encounter difficulties in correctly ...

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 ...

A sanitation worker was hospitalized after someone on their trash pickup route threw out a container of muriatic acid with the household garbage, Texas firefighters say. Firefighters with The ...

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 ...

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 ...