On 4/16/2011 3:58 AM, harry wrote:
On Apr 16, 3:18 am, wrote:
A review of best practices by Popular Mechanics magazine, inspired by the
death of a Yale student whose hair was caught in the chuck of a metal lathe.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home...ts-tragic-deat...

I guess she should have been wearing a hair net. . .

USA a hundred years behind normal workshop practices again?

This old hat. In the UK some one would end up in jail over this. the
company/university would be fined millions.
Employees that fail to observe safety proceedures are dismissed over
here.
Before working on machinery,all workers have to attend safety
lectures.
Large companies employ people whose entire job is about safety.

This is so elementary it's beyond belief.

Not true.
When I went from university to industrial lab years ago there was a
quantum leap in safe practices.
I suspect this gap remains today.
Interesting that the universities which are liberal bastions are less
considerate of the welfare of their employees and students.