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Yale University Student Killed in Lab Machine Shop Accident

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Source: ABC News

By ELICIA DOVER
April 13, 2011

A star Yale University science student was killed early today in an industrial accident at a campus machine shop where equipment for experiments was constructed.

Yale Vice President Linda Koch said the student, Michele Dufault of Scituate, Mass., died after a "terrible accident involving a piece of equipment in the student machine shop."

Sources told the New Haven Register that the student's hair got caught in a spinning lathe and it pulled her in.

The university said in a statement that the accident occurred at the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, but provided no details of what happened. Dufault was an astronomy and physics major who was expected to graduate with a bachelor's of science degree this spring.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/yale-university-student-michele-dufault-killed-machine-shop/story?id=13366121

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