On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged Harran and the UC regents with three counts each of willfully violating occupational health and safety standards, resulting in Sangji’s death. Harran and UCLA are accused of failing to correct unsafe work conditions in a timely manner, to require clothing appropriate for the work being done and to provide proper chemical safety training. An arrest warrant was issued for Harran, 42, who faces up to four and a half years in state prison, according to a district attorney’s spokeswoman…
Official UCLA statement at http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/campus-statement-regarding-criminal-221248.aspx
Technical details on the 2008 accident with updates and links at http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2009/01/20/tert-butyllithium-claims-fellow-chemist-at-ucla/
The exact details of the experiment are best found at Jyllian Kemsley's definitive article from the August 3, 2009 edition of Chemical and Engineering News: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/87/8731sci1.html