If you break a CFL bulb you are supposed to call a HAZMAT team
Last weekend on a local call in radio show a female called said she had a CFL "explode".
She call the poison center at a area hospital asking about the danger. The center said "We don't know but we will check it out and get back to you.
Within a short period of time the poison control center did call the woman back and tell her that she needed a HAZMAT team.
The female caller said the clean up cost was $2,300 for one bulb - one room.
The cfl bulbs have about 4-6 mg of mercury in them.
The old mercury thermometers had 500mg in them and you shoved them in your mouth.
Risk of a single bulb is next to nothing.
Risk of 100m in a landfill is something else.
No local hospitals have a poison center.
There is usually 1 poison center per state.. Some of the population dense states have more.
Lady got screwed on the clean up cost..Used car salesman type saw her a mile away and rooked her for all she was worth.