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A state report indicates that security gates in the enclosure of a Sumatran tiger in a Kansas Zoo were left unlocked before the animal attacked and injured a guardian veteran zoo.
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The report released Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor confirmed Topeka Zoo's assessment that no equipment failures or other problems with the compound led to the April 20 attack.
Zoo keeper Kristyn Hayden-Ortega was hospitalized after being injured by a sting injury and lacerations to her head, neck and back.
Hayden-Ortega had gone to the outside of the tiger's enclosure to clean it up. The animal was supposed to be inside, behind two doors. The report states that the doors "had been locked in the open position".
The report says the zoo now requires two employees to check the doors.
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