Cannabis Lab Explosion Kills Two: A Wake-up Call for a Fast-Growing Industry

Two workers died in a chemical explosion at a cannabis lab on May 7, raising questions about how to maintain high safety standards within a rapidly expanding industry. Samuel Cuffaro, 19, and Elisabetta D’Innocenti, 52, have become the latest additions to the Laboratory Safety Institute’s Memorial Wall, a webpage that tracks lab-related deaths worldwide. Although the exact cause of the explosion in Italy is still unknown, the lab was using pentane, and authorities are investigating how, where, and how much of the flammable chemical was being stored prior to the explosion, […]