Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A month-old baby was uninjured after his grandmother put him into a plastic bin at Los Angeles International Airport and slid him into an X-ray machine. Doctors at Centinela Hospital determined the baby boy had not received a dangerous dose of radiation and he was returned to his grandmother, who reportedly spoke Spanish and did not understand English, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Advertisement The two were allowed to board an Alaska Airlines flight to Mexico City. The screener assigned to watch the machine's monitor quickly noticed the baby's outline and pulled him backward off the conveyor belt meant for carry-on luggage. Although the dose of radiation received by the child was small, the incident called the safety of checkpoints into question. "Rather than focus on the radiation dose, which is a small amount, we need to focus on why this happened, so it doesn't happen again," said Dr. James Borgstede, a diagnostic radiologist at Penrose-St. Francis Health Systems in Colorado Springs, Colo., and president of the American College of Radiology. "Human beings weren't meant to go through those things."
