Care workers 'not fully trained'

Two workers at an Oxfordshire care home where a disabled woman was scalded in a bath have told an inquest into her death they were not fully trained.

Yelena Hasselberg-Langley, 18, suffered 20% burns after being put into the bath at a care home in Owens way in Cowley.

She was taken to hospital, but died of multiple organ failure four days later.

The carers told Oxford Coroner's Court they were not trained in how to use the bath and thought its temperature was controlled by a thermostat.

One of the women, Anna Majchrowska, told the jury she tested the water before Ms Hasselberg-Langley was lowered into it and had been happy it was at the right temperature.

Giving evidence earlier, Pamela Booker, the other carer charged with bathing the teenager on 27 August last year, said she had refused to operate the bath.

Instead, Ms Booker said she prepared Ms Hasselberg-Langley for her bath by changing her before placing her into a sling and lowering her into the water.

She said she only realised something was wrong when her own elbow touched the water and it was painful.

Ms Booker told the inquest that the teenager went rigid and her skin was reddening so she shouted to her colleague to raise the hoist.

Ms Hasselberg-Langley died four days later.

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