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[quote=Anonymous]We broke one - DC tipped over a lamp and the bulb smashed on the ground, and then DC tripped and cut his knee on a shard! I was stressed and called poison control, and was assured that the mercury is such a small quantity...a drop the size of the tip of a ball point pen. I gathered up the shards (thankfully there weren't tons...only one end of the bulb broke) and brought it to the dump. The poison control rep said the danger is if the mercury is exposed to heat and turns into a vapor, but again - not really harmful in such a small quantity. That being said, she reinforced the importance of cleaning up and disposing of properly. I was ready to call one of the local fire departments to come and do clean-up, but she said it wasn't necessary (when I was pregnant I broke a mercury thermometer and I believe the NIH fire department came with equipment to make sure there the spill wasn't hazardous).[/quote]
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