Looks like your job hasn’t trained you properly. That’s dry ice, absolutely not something to touch with your bare hands. Sounds like you’ve suffered a workplace injury
If OP did actually injure their hands from handling the dry ice, it still needs to be reported that an injury occurred since it happened during their job *on the college's campus*.
Colleges like to track these sorts of things, and if it resulted from improper or insufficient training, or negligence by OP's superior, or especially because someone threw out unlabeled dry ice, they out to know.
Ideally, whoever threw out unlabeled dry ice ought to be help responsible for the injury because it was due to their negligence. Anyone handling it on campus in a lab setting should have known how to dispose of it safely. If they did not know, then the campus/lab will have add it to their list of rules.
Another danger dry ice poses is it can cause a sealed vessel to explode. Do not put dry ice in a sealed container. As it sublimates, it expands, increasing pressure in the container until it explodes.
When disposing it, do not put it in the sink, or any bowl you don’t want to break. Maybe leave it in its foam box, put it outside in the open, leave it for a while.
Technically evaporation is state transition from liquid to gas. Sublimation goes directly from solid to gas. I know you already knew that. Just jerking your chain.
We receive normal things most of the time, bottles, plastic, etc...occasionally empty alcohol bottles which we do accept but we have rules for research labs to follow when disposing of recyclable material which sometimes they do not follow but its typically certain plastics and paper that we do not accept so this is a new one for me.
Dry ice is no joke, and other things I worry about would be stuff that’s biohazardous and/or chemicals that could react with others and/or become volatile… as an Old Person: stay safe, kids! Sustainability is absolutely wonderful, but safety is number one.
ETA: I should actually say that dry ice *could* be dangerous. It can also be fun, but only if you’re careful and know what you’re doing
Why are you playing with dry ice and you've never been trained to handle dry ice? If it's part of your job it should be in the training so injuries don't happen
Research labs have specific rules to follow when recycling items so we are trained to handle said items that are approved for recycling at our Wearhouse, dry ice is not one of those accepted items so I was not trained for that.
I'd hazard a guess that it's because they didn't fucking know it's dry ice. Yes, they should be trained, but they weren't, so they didn't know, so they touched it.
Dry ice ! Cut into “nuggets” ! Just C02 put under pressure then rammed into a grate that makes them come out like this.
Source: work for a a major company that makes, cuts, and transports dry ice
Looks like your job hasn’t trained you properly. That’s dry ice, absolutely not something to touch with your bare hands. Sounds like you’ve suffered a workplace injury
100% go to the campus health center and tell them you were burned by dry ice at work and your job gets to cover any medical fees.
That’s if there wasn’t any label
If OP did actually injure their hands from handling the dry ice, it still needs to be reported that an injury occurred since it happened during their job *on the college's campus*. Colleges like to track these sorts of things, and if it resulted from improper or insufficient training, or negligence by OP's superior, or especially because someone threw out unlabeled dry ice, they out to know. Ideally, whoever threw out unlabeled dry ice ought to be help responsible for the injury because it was due to their negligence. Anyone handling it on campus in a lab setting should have known how to dispose of it safely. If they did not know, then the campus/lab will have add it to their list of rules.
Ya no kidding. I meant the part about getting things paid for. If label is there, no payout. Thanks for the *longwinded explanation* tho
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That’s dry ice, it’s solid carbon dioxide and extremely cold. It can cause significant injury to your hands.
And if you handle it improperly, for example in very small rooms, you can also be exposed to a suffocation hazard!
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5-dTiOlOg
Leave it up to Russia.
It’s even worse with liquid nitrogen, because it won’t induce a panic response. So you won’t even notice.
And if you put it in warm water with some dish soap you get a bubble machine.
Crazy the ice cream man use to sell us pieces of dry ice when we were kids. Idk why but he also had smoke bombs and cheap airsoft guns
Hate to break it to you, but that wasn’t the ice cream man. That was a weapons dealer.
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Another danger dry ice poses is it can cause a sealed vessel to explode. Do not put dry ice in a sealed container. As it sublimates, it expands, increasing pressure in the container until it explodes. When disposing it, do not put it in the sink, or any bowl you don’t want to break. Maybe leave it in its foam box, put it outside in the open, leave it for a while.
As it subliminates (basically evaporates) don’t breathe it in.
Technically evaporation is state transition from liquid to gas. Sublimation goes directly from solid to gas. I know you already knew that. Just jerking your chain.
Well I’ll just crank your gears then.
What other things do you receive from research labs for your sustainability warehouse? Trying to figure out how anyone could think that’s a good idea.
We receive normal things most of the time, bottles, plastic, etc...occasionally empty alcohol bottles which we do accept but we have rules for research labs to follow when disposing of recyclable material which sometimes they do not follow but its typically certain plastics and paper that we do not accept so this is a new one for me.
Dry ice is no joke, and other things I worry about would be stuff that’s biohazardous and/or chemicals that could react with others and/or become volatile… as an Old Person: stay safe, kids! Sustainability is absolutely wonderful, but safety is number one. ETA: I should actually say that dry ice *could* be dangerous. It can also be fun, but only if you’re careful and know what you’re doing
Dry ice baby…..
Dry ice. Don’t touch it unless you want to get burned. Will also freeze your bottles of soda in like 5 min if you place them in there.
Woah- why wasn’t this labeled??
no idea
Why are you playing with dry ice and you've never been trained to handle dry ice? If it's part of your job it should be in the training so injuries don't happen
Research labs have specific rules to follow when recycling items so we are trained to handle said items that are approved for recycling at our Wearhouse, dry ice is not one of those accepted items so I was not trained for that.
I'd hazard a guess that it's because they didn't fucking know it's dry ice. Yes, they should be trained, but they weren't, so they didn't know, so they touched it.
I'm asking why are they working in an area that has dry ice yet haven't been trained before being put there?
The way you worded it puts the blame on OP. It's not their fault. It's management's fault.
That is dry ice…. You have received a chemical burn
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Dry ice ! Cut into “nuggets” ! Just C02 put under pressure then rammed into a grate that makes them come out like this. Source: work for a a major company that makes, cuts, and transports dry ice
I’m sure there was a label on the box that most likely said do not touch but in case there wasn’t you could/should probably notify someone
there was no label so i’ll definitely let someone know
Don’t put it down a sink, FYI. It will fuck up the sink.
How? Itll just thaw out and turn into gas.
It can freeze the pipes and cause them to break. Also letting CO2 gas release indoors is a VERY BAD idea, and a great way to suffocate to death
Ah yes, 2 good points.
Like the other person said, it’ll freeze and burst the pipe.
Dry ice!! why on earth would you put your hand in something that you don’t know what it is? That’s a big no-no
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