Nurse is pinned between an MRI machine and bed during a freak accident in California

A California nurse was left needing surgery for 'crushing injuries' after a freak accident left her pinned between an MRI machine and a bed. Ainah Cervantes was left trapped after the device's intense magnetic force pulled a hospital bed towards it. 

The nurse was with a patient at the Kaiser Permanente facility in Redwood City when the terrifying incident occurred in February. The patient was unharmed, but Cervantes sustained deep lacerations requiring surgery after two screws became embedded in her body. 'I was getting pushed by the bed,' Cervantes told investigators with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) KTVU reports. California nurse Ainah Cervantes was pinned between an MRI machine and a hospital bed following a freak accident

The Kaiser Permanente nurse required surgery for lacerations sustained when screws impaled her body. The incident took place in February at the facility in California's Redwood City

Basically, I was running backwards. If I didn't run, the bed would smash me underneath,' she said. A probe was only conducted several months after the accident and concluded the medical facility, 'failed to provide radiologic services in a safe manner'.

 The healthcare provider now faces a $18,000 fine over the workplace injury.  The report found there were several breaches of protocol around the use of the machine, a diagnostic tool used to scan the body using magnetic fields and radio waves. No MRI personnel were inside the room at the time of the incident and the safety alarm failed to sound, according to investigators. They also said that the door to the room had been left open and the patient was not screened. Employees did not have adequate safety training and the hospital failed to test its door alarm manually in a breach of  Kaiser Permanent MRI safety rules, the report found.  The healthcare provider has now been fined $18,000 over the work place accident.