When I sa w her photograph, hair entanglement was the first thing I thought of. In my laboratory safety classes I talk about rotating equipment and the need to tie back hair and neckties.
Tom Bialke, MSPH, CIH
Mgr.
;Office of Research Safety and Compliance
Kent State U
niversity
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Accord
ing to one of the on-line articles, her hair was caught in the lathe.
The one picture does show her with quite long hair.
A real tr
agedy that could have easily been prevented with a hair net or something si
milar.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, M.D.
TCMTS, Inc.
Laramie, W
Y
Colorado School of Public Health
Denver, CO
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Anybody care to bet hair was involved.<
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Apparently a machine shop/ lathe accident, see comment sec tion: "JennyL"
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On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Sjahsam, Oliver wrote:
Information about this is still spotty, hopefully w
e’ll learn more so we can prevent anything similar.
Chuck Cooper
Senior Advisor for Research Safety
CHO, RSO, BSO
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