News: You CAN Die Using Lifts And Escalators

[Teenager!]

(Did post in Spam. Was told it was useful information so I posted in world news, because it's sort-of internationally useful information.)

Lift accidents, extracted from Wikipedia...

"Reports said the passengers were scared to death and shrieked"
"Elevator ascended with the doors still open"
"building on University Avenue plummets five floors"
"Runaway elevator in office building decapitated 55-year-old James Chenault as he tried to help fellow passengers out of a malfunctioning car."
"Explosion in pit of a Kone elevator "
"London, June 2006. A 47-year-old man was killed when he plummeted eight floors during a refurbishment job in an office High Holborn, London. The lift was being modernized by a company called Guidelines. (Source: Construction News) "
"An eight-month-old baby died when an elevator in an apartment building fell six stories."


Escalator Accidents, extracted from Wikipedia

"Eight people died and 30 more were injured on February 17, 1982, when an escalator collapsed on the Moscow Metro. Faulty emergency brakes and design flaws were later blamed for the accident"
"8-year-old Jyotsna Jethani was killed at New Delhi's international airport when a passenger's bag got stuck in an escalator at the arrival lounge and ripped it open. Jyotsna fell into the gaping hole that resulted"
"Sally Baldwin, a professor of the University of York, was crushed to death at Tiburtina Station in Rome on 28 October 2003 after a travelator collapsed and she was pulled into the cogwheels"


No method of transport is safe. YOU CAN DIE on an escalator or in a lift. Use the stairs in future

[RedStratocas]

You can die doing anything.

And also, I'd do a little research on this. I wouldnt be surprised if more people die falling down the stairs than on escalators. 400 people die in the bath tub in the US each year. Take showers? 600 people die falling out of bed at night a year. Sleep on the floor?

[Caution]

Theres been a lot of problems with the new Tesco where I live.
They have esculators that don't have stairs, they slope.
People go on it with wheelchairs and get stuck at the bottom, and it jams the esculator.

Yeah, you can die on anything.

[Teenager!]

That tesco thing..

1. They're travellators.
2. Thats obvious Every travellator advertises that people with prams/wheelchair/pacemaker have to use lifts. It the same at Asda in Colchester.

[benjamin]

kinda obvious yeah

[Swastika]

Yeah you can die doing almost everything.
Im not suprised.

Edit: WOOT - 1,000TH POST!

[GommeInc]

If the "s" word wasn't filtered I would be saying "No s Sherlock"...

You can die doing anything, and it was always possible to die using an esculator and a lift. A lift because they can plummit many floors and an esculator in some cases can get people trapped in them.

You can die doing anything.

400 people die in the bath tub in the US each year. Take showers?

You can die taking a shower by slipping into them and breaking a neck or getting caught in curtains, or slipping getting out of them.

600 people die falling out of bed at night a year. Sleep on the floor?

You might die by the floor caving in? Besides, you would probably get servere pain in some areas not sleeping properly or in nice comfortable conditions. Either way, you can't avoid it

[WarRock]

they probs inproving saftey now anyway






sorry but i think lifts and esculaters are for lazy people i like the stairs as u can jump down them + it keeps u fit.

[Teenager!]

What about if you acually fell in a lift.. say... from the top of Blackpool Tower

Would you still be alive? I mean, the stuff on tose lifts are so old they have to close them like three hours a day just for tests and repairs.

[benjamin]

More people die a year from putting on jeans then aircraft crashes, everything is dangerous