A pregnant woman whose hair got tangled in a machine has died 5 days after.
Gatekeepers News reports that Umida Nazarova, 21, was applying for a new job at the Svarmet factory in Borisov, Belarus, which produces welding wire and electrodes, when she got strangled by her hair.
It was gathered that when her senior staff members showed her round the factory, her loose hair suddenly got caught in a machine and wrapped around her neck and she became trapped and covered in blood.
The deceased’s mother, Olga said: “Her throat was injured, according to the doctor. Her hair got wrapped around her neck and she was pulled into the mechanism.
“If her scalp had not been torn off, she would have been strangled there and then by her own hair.”
According to reports, she suffered fatal injuries, and never regained consciousness.
Her father Dmitry said safety rules were broken. “They took two lives, she was seven weeks pregnant.
“They saw she had long hair, so why didn’t they give her something to cover it?”
The Belarus Investigative Committee said: “An employee, who was showing her how the equipment operates, paused to make a record in a register.
“When she turned her head, she saw the woman already lying on the floor unconscious, her hair was tangled in the machine.”
It was gathered that the company paid for the woman’s funeral.
“She wanted to become a mother,” said Olga.
“We wanted to celebrate her wedding, and collect a grandson or granddaughter from the hospital, not this.
“This is not what I wanted for my child.”
An unnamed plant head of production has been sentenced by a court for ‘failure to fulfil her official duties due to dishonest and negligent attitude…causing the death of a person’.
