Are the Lessons Learned in Laboratory Safety Applicable to Real World Scenarios?

Hook: Have you ever thought that you may be eaten by an alligator? How about having all of your hair burned off by a Bunsen burner? Have you ever thought that you could contract the plague just from not wearing gloves? Well no one does! However, it happens more often than you would think.
Overview: Most science classes begin with an overview of laboratory safety procedures. Many teachers agree that this is an important topic to discuss due to the recent increase of accidents in labs not only at the high school level, but also in universities and in professional settings. The purpose of this document-based question is to have you evaluate the necessity of learning laboratory safety. You are to examine the documents and search for evidence to support your answer to the question, “Are the lessons learned in laboratory safety applicable to real world scenarios?”
The Documents: Document A - A Death in the Lab Document B - University of Chicago Microbiologist Infected From Possible Lab Accident Document C - Danger in School Labs: Accidents Haunt Experimental Science Document D - Animal Handling Safety Document E - Graphs of Death by Mechanism and Occupation
Understanding the Question

1. What is the analytical question asked in this DBQ? 2. What terms in the question need to be defined? 3. Rewrite the question in your own words.
Pre-Bucketing

Directions: Using clues from the question, think of logical analytical categories and label the buckets. (Hint: use a two-step bucketing strategy.)

THEN

Document A - A Death in the Lab
Fatality adds further momentum to calls for a shake-up in academic safety culture.
In the early hours of 13 April, undergraduate students working at Yale University's Sterling Chemistry Laboratory made a shocking discovery.