Officials described the incident as a small explosion in a lab inside the College of Pharmacy and Health Science building off Chamblee-Tucker Road.

Capt. Eric Jackson with DeKalb County Fire said students were cleaning a beaker with hydrochloric acid when it either dropped or exploded.

Two graduate students suffered cuts and burns. Both students were treated at the college and then taken to the hospital.

One student was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and a second student was taken to Northside Hospital