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Girl Mutilated In Art Accident

Ajd1992 From UK - England, joined Jul 2006, 2645 posts, RR: 6
Posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1314 times:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lated.html?ITO=1490&referrer=yahoo

Terrible thing to have happen.

I hope the doctors can help her.

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Directorguy From Egypt, joined Jul 2008, 1569 posts, RR: 11
Reply 1, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1288 times:

Ouch. This is a terrible freak accident that could and should have been avoided. To have one's future altered like that while on the verge of graduating and starting a new life is just harsh. Best of luck to the young woman, and I hope she can persevere through all of this.

Sunshine79 From UK - England, joined Jan 2006, 1758 posts, RR: 33
Reply 2, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1281 times:

The girl has undergone 12 operations to try to save her fingers but couldn't so I don't think there is much more the doctors can do.

I cannot believe the school failed to report this to the HSE, probably knowing they would be in the shit for this, however, the girl did not do as instructed with the mould and clay. The teacher should have told the pupils exactly what would happen if they didn't follow the correct procedure.

Formerly alcregular, Why drive when you can fly?

LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51
Reply 3, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1276 times:

For the hands to have "cooked" in the plaster, I guess there must have been some lime being used for the plaster.

KiwiRob From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 5424 posts, RR: 3
Reply 4, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1272 times:

terrible reporting she lost 6 fingers and both her thumbs, surely the reporter must know that people usually have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, not 10 fingers as this reporter implies.

Ajd1992 From UK - England, joined Jul 2006, 2645 posts, RR: 6
Reply 5, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1211 times:

According to the article, the teacher told her to put her hands in it. I want to know why it takes 10 minutes to set and she had her hands in it for that long though.

Not sure what's in Plaster of Paris but it can't have been that nice to have that done to your hands.

MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64
Reply 6, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1185 times:

Didn´t they have a hammer in the arts room to break up the lump of plaster?
Plaster of Paris gets quite warm when it hardens, and there´ll be little transfer of heat out of the lump due to bad conductivity of heat, large volume and little surface.

Jan

KiwiRob From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 5424 posts, RR: 3
Reply 7, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1168 times:

Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 6):
Didn´t they have a hammer in the arts room to break up the lump of plaster?

The answer to your question is in the article.

MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64
Reply 8, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1168 times:

Quoting KiwiRob (Reply 7):
Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 6):
Didn´t they have a hammer in the arts room to break up the lump of plaster?

The answer to your question is in the article.

I read the article again and beside the statement that "neither the staff nor the paramedics could get the plaster off" it doesn´t mention anything about how they tried to do it.
Getting the school janitor with his toolbox and lump hammer might have been a better option, though I´m quite sure that a sculptury room should have some hammers, chisels and maybe a maul or two.

Jan

TZ757300 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 2839 posts, RR: 7
Reply 9, posted (3 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1168 times:

Quoting Ajd1992 (Reply 5):
According to the article, the teacher told her to put her hands in it. I want to know why it takes 10 minutes to set and she had her hands in it for that long though.

No it didn't. The article says the teacher told her to put her hands in the clay to make a mold. The clay sets up quick. Instead, she put her hands in the plaster, which takes a much longer time to set up.

It's unfortunate that this happened, but the girl should have been paying more attention to what she was doing.

I hope she recovers as fully as possible.

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