Chaos hit one Oklahoma Zoo as an employee became vigorously attacked by a tiger while working at the Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park, hit the jump for more detail!
The Zoo’s Facebook posted an official statement on the tiger attack stating that:
[A] female worker violated safety protocol and placed her hand inside a adult male tiger cage. She was wearing a large goose down jacket which got bunched up inside the cage wire not allowing her to get her hand back outside the cage wire fast enough and the tiger grabbed her hand pulling her left arm through a 4 inch square hole… This was an employee error of violating the safety protocols of placing any part of the body inside a cage. The tiger will not be put down and our thoughts and prayers are with the member of our staff that was injured.
“He tore her arm up pretty bad,” Joe Schreibvogel, zoo owner, told The Associated Press. “Her entire arm was still attached. It was badly, badly damaged.” Huffpost Reports
The injured employee has been hospitalized since the incident.
