Hidden Lake High School will be closed Wednesday, April 27, after a chemical reaction in a laboratory class injured a student.Įarly reports indicate the student suffered injuries to his hands because of the incident which happened in a supervised class setting. “There was just a bunch of cops, a fire truck, everyone like, all the teachers were outside telling everyone to go home, there were a bunch of kids just leaving and everyone who just got dropped off was just having to get picked back up,” said Erin Grant, who’s a senior at Hidden Lake High School.Ī letter, accompanied by a phone call to all parents, was sent out by the district that read:
Students at the school told Denver7 the quick cancelation of the planned half day of classes caused a chaotic situation around the building. “I know that he had some fairly significant injuries and he needs to go into surgery, the other hand had less severe injuries and then there was some ceramic shrapnel, for lack of a better word, that might have come up and hit him in the chest,” said Saunders. The student was rushed to the hospital with injuries to at least one hand. The teacher and student were mixing two dry chemicals that are normally safe when blended, but pressure was added while combining them causing friction and a small explosion. School was over before it started at Hidden Lake High School in Westminster Wednesday morning.Ī student was working one-on-one with a science teacher around 7:45 in the morning, when a science experiment turned dangerous, according to Westminster School District spokesperson Steve Saunders.
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