On June 18, 1977, claimants and their infant son were fishing at a pond in the Town of Middletown, Delaware County. The infant was severely burned when a canister he had found floating in the pond exploded while he was playing with it. The canister contained lithium aluminum hydride, a combustible chemical used to manufacture phencyclidine, a controlled substance (see Penal Law, § 220.00, subd 5; Public Health Law, § 3306, schedule I, subd [e], par [2]), and had...
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