Monday, March 07, 2016

Don't take the elevator or ride the escalator in China

Some news from the Washington Post

  • Last July, a woman was crushed by an escalator in central China; 
  • in January 2015, a doctor and a patient bumped into an elevator door during a physical altercation when the door opened, and they plunged to their deaths;
  • in September 2014, a student was crushed by an elevator;
  • a maintenance worker had to have his left leg amputated when an escalator he was cleaning collapsed 
  • Woman ‘starved to death’ after being stranded for a month on an elevator
  • "More than 110,000 escalators have potential safety issues of which over 26,000 have not yet been repaired”

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