Yeah Jason, that is possible. What would happen if a bulb there broke and released the mercury and then combine that with the heat.

I remember reading about a man who used to play with liquid mercury, he'd watch it and play with it. I guess he had it in some container, or whether he touched or not I don't know. But he got away with it for a long time adn oneday a little of that mercury dropped and landed on a hot plate.

He died a week later form mercury poisoning, because of the vapor.