NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 13 (UPI) -- A Yale University student was killed when her hair got caught in a lathe in the school's Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, university officials said.
Michele Dufault of Massachusetts was killed Tuesday evening when her hair became ensarled in a spinning lathe in the laboratory's machine shop and she was pulled into the equipment, the New Haven (Conn.) Register reported.
The astronomy and physics major's parents had been notified and were traveling to the Yale campus, the Yale Daily News said.
Campus officials said the machine shop where students and faculty "construct or modify research instrumentation" is in the laboratory's basement and access is "strictly limited to those who have completed the shop course."
As a result of the fatal accident, Sterling Laboratory was closed Wednesday, and all classes and labs held there were canceled, university secretary Linda Lorimer said.
