this is one of the most tragic things i have read

i'm posting it because i have very long hair. i am quite careful but one never knows. 9/10ths of the time, it is in a bun. every once in a while it will be in a braid or a ponytail. we have a revolving door at work that's automatic. it DOES have a reverse switch on it, but i ALWAYS make sure my hair is not flying about.  one doesn't think things like this can happen. this story shows us they can

and of course to the family and friends of ms dufault, i am so very sorry for your loss

Yale Student Killed as Hair Gets Caught in Lathe

By LISA W. FODERARO

As a Yale undergraduate majoring in astronomy and physics, Michele Dufault was used to extreme physical environments. She worked on underwater robotic vehicles last summer as a fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. She also traveled to Houston as part of a team of undergraduates chosen by NASA to perform a plasma physics experiment in reduced gravity.But it was a rudimentary machine — a lathe in a campus laboratory — that erased what everyone imagined to be a brilliant future for Ms. Dufault, who also found time to mentor girls interested in science and to play saxophone in Yale’s precision marching band............