NILES v. BD. OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA

No. A96A0201.

473 S.E.2d 173 (1996)

222 Ga. App. 59

NILES v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied July 2, 1996.

Certiorari Denied October 11, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greene, Buckley, Jones & McQueen, Harold S. White, Jr., Atlanta, J. Russell Phillips, Cochran, Victoria L. McLaughlin, Atlanta, for appellant.

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Bentley, Karesh & Seacrest, Gary L. Seacrest, Karsten Bicknese, Charles H. Van Horn, Atlanta, for appellee.


ANDREWS, Judge.

Julian Niles, a doctoral student at Georgia Tech, suffered severe injuries in a laboratory accident. Chemicals he mixed inside a metal canister reacted violently, causing an explosion which sent fragments of the metal into his leg and lower abdomen. He sued Georgia Tech and the Board of Regents, claiming his professor and the University's administration should have provided him with laboratory safety training and should have warned him of the dangers...

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