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Complacency kills! It's why it's usually the old farmers that die in stupid ways. I'm also reminded of the Yale machine shop safety supervisor who died by gett

Complacency kills! It's why it's usually the old farmers that die in stupid ways. I'm also reminded of the Yale machine shop safety supervisor who died by getting herself wound around a lathe spindle. Working alone, late at night on powerful rotating machinery wearing loose clothing.

M95D 7mo ago
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- bookofjoe 7mo ago
  >Michele Dufault, a 22-year-old physics and astronomy major from Scituate, Massachusetts, was asphyxiated after her hair caught in a lathe in a Sterling Chemistry Laboratory machine shop, where she was working by herself in violation of the existing safety rules. https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3288-after-a-fatal-accident-new-safety-standards https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3288-after-a-fatal-a...
  - HeyLaughingBoy 7mo ago
    Hmmm. I was positive that at the time the report came out, they said that she was actually one of the people assigned to monitor machine shop users for safety issues. Maybe that got confused with her taking the advanced safety classes. In any case, a tragic situation.
    - bookofjoe 7mo ago
      To me the wonder is that you remember the details you do, 15 years after the fact!