S3E4 "One Citation, 327 Pages: The Redwood City MRI Accident”

Podcast: Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations · CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk

Opublikowano: 2026-09-22

Cal/OSHA investigated the Redwood City MRI accident that nearly killed an ICU nurse. The hospital received one citation. But the investigative file ran 327 pages—and buried inside were clues to a much bigger MRI safety story. In this episode of The Invisible Force, John Posh and Tobias Gilk dig into the Cal/OSHA investigation of the 2023 Redwood City Hospital MRI accident, in which an ICU bed was pulled into an MRI scanner, pinning and seriously injuring a nurse. The official Cal/OSHA citation focused on one hazard: the failure to keep the MRI scanner ro...