School spokesman Jack Dunn says the student suffered cuts on her face Saturday morning. He says she drove herself home after the small blast at the Merkert Chemistry Center in Boston.
The Boston Fire Department arrived at the Merkert Chemistry Center at 10:47 a.m. A Twitter post from Boston Fire said the student left the basement lab after the blast, but was found off campus at an apartment. No other injuries were reported.
Meanwhile, the chemistry building was evacuated and authorities were talking to a professor about a chemistry experiment.
Dunn says other students who later spotted evidence of an explosion called Boston police. Fire officials and hazmat crew evacuated the building.
The student told emergency workers that she was using a chemical called thionyl chloride alone in the lab. Thionyl chloride can be used to make mustard gas and nerve toxins.
Dunn says the student was decontaminated and doing fine.
The build has reopened.
CNN staff contributed to this story
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