Great warning. And there are so many similar stories from women on stage or in rehearsal getting fingernails and hair on fire from magic tricks or special effects. Pyro even set Michael Jackson's hair on fire. Lesson: if you paint or spray a flammable product on some part of you, you are a kindling waiting for a match.
Monona
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From: Meg Osterby <megosterby**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
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I was a bride's maid at my sister's wedding in 1979 and she paid for a manicure for me with my own nails and salon polish. I smoked at that time and at the reception, sitting and smoking a cigarette after the dinner with my date next to me, I stubbed out the cigarette on the provided ash tray on out table, and the nail polish on my right (dominant hand) thumb caught fire. My date grabbed my thumb and dunked it in his pop and quickly put it out. But, the manicurist had allowed polish to sleep around the side of the nail and polish the bottom side of the nail tip as well as the top, so the fire had spread to both sides in the 1 or 2 seconds it burned for. When I took my thumb out of the iced pop, I found that the skin adjacent to the underside of the nail tip had second degree burns across the whole fingertip under the nail. It was nasty and painful, but when I went to the doctor the next day, he said I had prevented serious damage by dunking it to put it out and then staying in the ice cold pop for a while until the skin was no longer hot to the touch.
Meg Osterby
"It's better to be careful 100 times than to be dead once." Mark Twain.
Lab Safety Inspections Program Manager, Research & Occupational Safety
Environmental Health and Safety Department
University of Washington
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On Behalf Of Monona Rossol Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:18 PM To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Question for teaching and research university labs
No rules but search google for a video of a lab student accidentally setting fire to one of her nails with a Bunsen burner and shaking the burning blobs of plastic
all over the place. I've seen it several times, but don't have a link. Might help in your PR.
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