04/03/2015
A researcher was injured after an explosion in a chemistry laboratory at the University of Liverpool.
Paramedics and fire crews, including the specialist HazMat team, were called to the chemistry building on Oxford Street at around 8.50am following the incident on the fourth floor.
Eyewitnesses reported several windows were blown out in the blast, which involved a chemical at the site, and the area outside was cordoned off.
The man who was injured, a post-graduate researcher, was given first aid at the scene by paramedics.
He is believed to have suffered burns to his hands and face, while two other people thought to have been in the laboratory at the time of the explosion were uninjured.