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pAn office worker in London, England was taken to hospital after her hair was caught in the blades of a a href=http://www.airandwatercentre.com/store/SEURLF/ASP/SFS/CID.5/SFE/productcategories.htm target=_blankdesk fan/a, leading to servere blood loss and lacerations to the scalp. 24 year old admin assistant Emily Hutnyk, employed by a large tele-communications corporation in the center of London, used the fan to try and cope with the heatwave that recently hit the UK . Temperatures in London soared to a record-breaking 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in early July, leading to unbearable working conditions in many workplaces.!–more– Just like many other office workers, Miss Hutnyk put a small fan on her desktop in order to stay cool while trying to work. So hot and humid was it that day that the young lady kept moving the desk fan closer to her face to try and cool down as much as possible. Tragedy struck when her long blonde hair became trapped within the grilles of the desk fan and got pulled in by the rotating blades. It only took seconds for a large amount of hair and skin to be forcefully torn out of the girls head by the rotating blades of the fan. It all happened so quickly, said Ms Hutnyk later, it sounds horribly painful but to tell you the truth I passed out pretty quickly and thankfully I didnt really know much about it. I think my co-workers were acutally the traumatised ones - apparently my blood went everywhere. She was rushed to the nearest hospital by ambulance, where she was treated for blood loss, scalp wounds and shock. Her doctors are allegedly thinking about recommending implants to recover the lost hair, which was pulled out by the follicles./ppThis was a terrible accident, said a company spokesman later. It is something we want to avoid happening again and well be reviewing the provision of cooling appliances in the office. We will be fitting each office with a a href=http://www.airandwatercentre.com/store/SEURLF/ASP/SFS/CID.36/SFE/productcategories.htm target=_blankceiling fan/a and banning the use of desk fans to prevent these kinds of incidents in the future. However a representative from the office workers trade union GMB called this measure unacceptable. The root cause of such disasters is that we dont have equipment or laws in place in workplaces to help us cope with hot weather - ceiling fans arent enough. We are demanding that every office in the UK be fitted with a href=http://www.airandwatercentre.com/ target=_blankair conditioners/a both to help people concentrate on their work and ensure this kind of tragedy never happens again. Miss Hutnyk, at the unions advice, is currently considering whether to pursue legal action against the company, which could be a landmark case in health and safety and employment law./pp/p