Are there a lot of documented health problems from people dropping fluorescent light bulbs due to mercury?

Question

Seeing as how they really have no warning labels, I'd expect this to be a new epidemic. Everyone drops a light bulb on occassion, it just happens. When a fluorescent bulb breaks, you're supposed to immediately vacate the area and call for a Hazmat team to come and thoroughly and extensively clean the premises......but I'd wager that 90% of the people buying the bulbs aren't aware of that. Have a lot of health issues been observed already from people that have dropped these things, and yet in their ignorance, did not clean up the spill?

Answer 1

Why is it that we have had regular fluorescent tubes for decades which contain more mercury than CFs, but nobody seems to have suffered any ill effects without industrial exposure?

Answer 2

i new from a early age that they where dangrous but i never heard of anyone getting hurt bye dropping one.

Answer 3

No. The danger is exaggerated in our sue happy society.