What the fuck, an elevator accident killing someone I can understand, but an Escalator? That's just ridiculous.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/27/china/chinese-mother-killed-escalator/
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Beijing (CNN)—Security camera footage has emerged of a mother saving her young son's life seconds before losing her own on an escalator in China.
The 30-second video begins innocently enough: As the escalator in a shopping mall almost reaches the top, a woman in a white shirt and black skirt lifts up her young son to get ready to step off.
But as she does, a metal panel collapses under her feet. She falls into the gap.
Struggling with only her upper body above the structure, the mother is seen pushing her son forward. The boy is quickly pulled to safety by a mall employee standing near the top of the escalator.
Two other mall employees try to drag the trapped woman out, but within a few seconds, she disappears through the hole into the escalator shaft.
Despite a four-hour rescue operation at the upscale AZG Mall in central China, firefighters declared the woman dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body Sunday afternoon, state media reported.
'Human error'
Officials in Jingzhou, a city of more than 5 million residents in Hubei province, blamed human error for the tragedy at a news conference Monday night.
Mall employees found the collapsed panel to be loose and protruding five minutes before the incident but failed to stop the escalator for inspection and repair, said Chen Guanxin, the local official in charge of work safety.
State media had earlier identified the victim as a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother.
CNN's repeated phone calls to the shopping mall went unanswered Monday. A representative from the maintenance service provider declined to comment.
Mounting number of escalator accidents
State media on Monday also reported two other incidents involving escalators in shopping malls.
In southwestern Guangxi province, a toddler's left hand and arm were caught in a gap of an escalator on Monday after he tripped and fell at the bottom, firefighters told local media. He suffered multiple trauma, including a fractured arm, and was hospitalized.
In Beijing, a boy's foot was stuck in an escalator at a shopping mall on Sunday, according to People's Daily. He was rescued by firefighters within half an hour and appeared only slightly injured, witnesses told the newspaper.
Last year, 13 people were injured when an escalator traveling upward abruptly reversed direction at a busy subway station in Shanghai. In 2011, a similar incident at a Beijing subway station killed a teenage boy and injured 30 others.
Victim's family angry
Frustrated with the mall's handling of the situation, the victim's family members have gone online to call for a thorough and transparent investigation.
"An ordinary Sunday shopping trip ended up in such a sudden tragedy, almost ruining an entire family," said user @kkcake, who identified herself as the victim's sister-in-law and posted some of the earliest pictures from the scene on the popular microblogging site Weibo.
"The shopping mall is still open and the killer escalators are still running," she added. "Shoppers have no idea about the tragedy upstairs and no one knows if such disasters will strike again."
CNN's Shen Lu in Beijing contributed to this report.
Old news. Mono scooped you.
Where?
Nowhere. :ph34r:
QuoteFrustrated with the mall's handling of the situation, the victim's family members have gone online to call for a thorough and transparent investigation.
This is where you know it's in China. If it was in USA, they'd be preparing to sue the mall.
Quote from: viper37 on July 28, 2015, 12:28:03 AM
QuoteFrustrated with the mall's handling of the situation, the victim's family members have gone online to call for a thorough and transparent investigation.
In China they should be happy that the mall doesn't sue them for negative publicity ending in labour camp.
This is where you know it's in China. If it was in USA, they'd be preparing to sue the mall.
There was a time when Tim would read my thread and mock me :weep:
Quote from: Monoriu on July 28, 2015, 01:04:26 AM
There was a time when Tim would read my thread and mock me :weep:
Get some new material :rolleyes:
Having seen one of the less sanitized versions, and growing up around first responders, I hate the phrasing,
Quote"Despite a four-hour rescue operation at the upscale AZG Mall in central China, firefighters declared the woman dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body Sunday afternoon, state media reported."
At the risk of sounding insensitive, the machinery was still going even after she was sucked in. It wasn't a rescue operation; it was them having to get all the bits. There wouldn't have been a body to declare dead. Every EMT knows there are some accidents that are so bad, all you can do is get the hose and clean up.
:yes:
During my public admin training I spent some time in the district's traffic department. As part of an effort to get a speed limit in a certain section of the local autobahn there was rather detailed report on a motorcyclist who had crashed in the dark, and who was not discovered until morning, spread out over several hundred meters of road after having been run over "by an undetermined number of vehicles." :x
An acquaintance in Germany used to work as EMT, but he had to quit after scraping one guy too many off the railroad tracks, because he couldn't handle it anymore.
Has somebody made a bad taste "on nom nom" gif yet?
But yes. Pretty damn fucked up stuff
A woman was injured in a Stockholm subway escalator a while ago. They shut down a lot of escalators and gradually brought them back online.
Today they were repairing an escalator at my subway stop. Coincidence? Yes, yes it is.
Years ago I knew a guy who's main area of practice was defending claims arising out of escalator related injuries. I think they have become safer over time though so he probably had to expand his practice to other areas of law.
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 28, 2015, 12:48:35 PM
Years ago I knew a guy who's main area of practice was defending claims arising out of escalator related injuries. I think they have become safer over time though so he probably had to expand his practice to other areas of law.
... and then someone invented Crocs, and his practice was saved?
;)
When I was a kid. maybe 8, a similarly aged cousin and I were at the mall, and we were having fun by hanging onto the outside of the escalator rail and letting it carry us up a ways before dropping off.
Some 3 year old saw us, and decided to give it a try. He was just small enough that there was a "walkway" outside the rails that he could use, so he wasn't hanging over an edge like we were. So when he started to go up, he just kept going. And at the very top, there was a wall, so presumably that would be the end of his ride and he would fall to the ground, probably killed or seriously injured.
My cousin and I watched, completely shocked silent, as he went up and never let go. About halfway up, realizing he was in trouble, he started screaming. His father then noticed what was going on, and moved as fast as any man I've ever seen, going up the escalator 3 steps at a time, and got him onto the safe side of the escalator probably when he was 80% up.
Dude why didn't you video that.
This was the dark ages, when 8 year olds didn't own smart phones.
A dark ages indeed.
My 2 year old weeps.
Quote from: Malthus on July 28, 2015, 12:50:30 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 28, 2015, 12:48:35 PM
Years ago I knew a guy who's main area of practice was defending claims arising out of escalator related injuries. I think they have become safer over time though so he probably had to expand his practice to other areas of law.
... and then someone invented Crocs, and his practice was saved?
;)
:lol:
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 28, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
I'm wondering if it is an urban vs. suburban thing as in cities in civilized countries, people stand on the right so even tourists from said places should know the score.
Hicksters shouldn't be allowed on escalators.
A new video has surfaced. It documents what happened a few minutes before the accident. The reason the two female staff were there was because they themselves almost fell into the hole a few minutes before the accident. Why they didn't close the escalator was beyond me.
Warning, the video may contain disturbing images. Click at your own risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2HumSwRnE
Quote from: garbon on July 28, 2015, 04:45:37 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 28, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
I'm wondering if it is an urban vs. suburban thing as in cities in civilized countries, people stand on the right so even tourists from said places should know the score.
I've no idea what the rule is in the uk, in Switzerland there seems to be none (which gets annoying), in japan it varies by region.
In Hong Kong, the generally accepted rule is to stand on the right, and walk on the left. The powers-that-be heavily promoted this for many years.
One day, they stopped giving out this message. Now they just tell people to stand still. The problem they found was, if everybody stands on the right, after a couple of years, mechanical problems began to develop because the weight is distributed so unevenly.
In Vienna you also stand on the right and walk on the left. Though I tend to be tolerant of people who don't know any different.
Other people have shorter temper, and on longer escalators it's an open invitation to be berated by someone if you stand on the left and block the way.
Quote from: Syt on July 29, 2015, 02:08:10 AM
In Vienna you also stand on the right and walk on the left. Though I tend to be tolerant of people who don't know any different.
Who are these people though? Takes all of two seconds on you first escalator in a major city to learn/see what you should be doing.
It's usually not a single person, but friends, family etc. who walk next to each other and then stand next to each other while chatting. Usually, when they see someone walking down they'll make way, though.
Indeed, so more like they don't give a fuck. ;)
People who walk on escalators are weird.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 29, 2015, 03:17:20 AM
People who walk on escalators are weird.
Not really. They move pretty slowly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqTHA7jCoZI
A visual guide - how to use the escalators safely.
Safe for all ages. I think.
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 28, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
No, no, no, no.
Wanna walk? Use the regular stairs, asshole.
Quote from: garbon on July 29, 2015, 02:18:48 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 29, 2015, 02:08:10 AM
In Vienna you also stand on the right and walk on the left. Though I tend to be tolerant of people who don't know any different.
Who are these people though? Takes all of two seconds on you first escalator in a major city to learn/see what you should be doing.
People without Stanford degrees.
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 29, 2015, 08:23:49 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 28, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
No, no, no, no.
Wanna walk? Use the regular stairs, asshole.
Many times there isn't an extra staircase. Besides, what good reason is there to block people from passing if they want.
Quote from: The Brain on July 29, 2015, 09:14:05 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 29, 2015, 02:18:48 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 29, 2015, 02:08:10 AM
In Vienna you also stand on the right and walk on the left. Though I tend to be tolerant of people who don't know any different.
Who are these people though? Takes all of two seconds on you first escalator in a major city to learn/see what you should be doing.
People without Stanford degrees.
Oh, I didn't realize. :blush:
The real annoying people are the ones that cut you off just to stand there.
Quote from: HVC on July 29, 2015, 11:29:14 AM
The real annoying people are the ones that cut you off just to stand there.
Truth.
Usually people will get the idea once you tell them where they should be so they don't get in the way. However, if there's a giant group of them, buckle in cause it's going to be a long wait. :ultra:
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 29, 2015, 08:23:49 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 28, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
No, no, no, no.
Wanna walk? Use the regular stairs, asshole.
I think you might be thinking about short escalators that have stairs parallel to the escalator. In those cases I do take the stairs because I can move faster than the people on the escalator. But what about long escalators with no nearby stairs. Why should someone who is in a hurry have to wait because someone is too self absorbed to give way and stand to the right?
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 29, 2015, 11:35:18 AM
Usually people will get the idea once you tell them where they should be so they don't get in the way. However, if there's a giant group of them, buckle in cause it's going to be a long wait. :ultra:
Meh, I find that saying "coming through" gets their attention. :D
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 29, 2015, 11:36:06 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 29, 2015, 08:23:49 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 28, 2015, 04:00:39 PM
The worst thing about escalators is when people don't know walk on left, stand on right. Fucking tourists.
No, no, no, no.
Wanna walk? Use the regular stairs, asshole.
I think you might be thinking about short escalators that have stairs parallel to the escalator. In those cases I do take the stairs because I can move faster than the people on the escalator. But what about long escalators with no nearby stairs. Why should someone who is in a hurry have to wait because someone is too self absorbed to give way and stand to the right?
Yeah exactly that. Short escalators, I've really no issue if someone blocks the way.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 29, 2015, 03:17:20 AM
People who walk on escalators are weird.
Why don't people walk on escalators? You are trying to get from point a to point b, just because the ground starts moving at some trivial pace toward the destination, you should stop walking?
I get it if you are awkwardly carrying luggage or something, or out of shape/ill to the point walking is a serious effort, but otherwise, lets keep it moving.
Quote from: alfred russel on July 29, 2015, 12:26:26 PM
Why don't people walk on escalators?
Increased chance of tripping and it ultimately means you get there half a second quicker but are closer to the people ahead of you than is strictly comfortable(or more succinctly, cause nobody else is).
N.B. I'm mostly thinking of mall escalators. The ones at the airport are bigger and many people do keep walking.
In DC it was stand right walk left. Makes sense, like a slow and a fast lane in a highway.
Quote from: Syt on July 28, 2015, 03:47:06 AM
:yes:
During my public admin training I spent some time in the district's traffic department. As part of an effort to get a speed limit in a certain section of the local autobahn there was rather detailed report on a motorcyclist who had crashed in the dark, and who was not discovered until morning, spread out over several hundred meters of road after having been run over "by an undetermined number of vehicles." :x
An acquaintance in Germany used to work as EMT, but he had to quit after scraping one guy too many off the railroad tracks, because he couldn't handle it anymore.
Having a parent who ran a volunteer squad was a double-edged sword, since I wasn't as insulated from what was going on as a career firefighter or EMT's kid would be. I learned very quickly that fire police blocking off a road instead of directing traffic around the accident meant either a fatality or a likely fatality- either way, it was guaranteed to not be for the easily disgusted. Likewise, if we saw MERC Team vehicles, we knew it was
really bad- MERC stood for mobile emergency responder counseling (IIRC, it's been a few years, and they've since undergone a few name changes), so if they were there, it was guaranteed to be a doozy.
I have just seen the photograph, which I will not post, of a lift accident in China. Basically, a young girl walked into a lift, and it went up before the girl had completely entered the lift. So the head ended up one floor above, and the rest of the body remained on the original floor :x
Quote from: Monoriu on July 30, 2015, 07:52:26 PM
I have just seen the photograph, which I will not post, of a lift accident in China. Basically, a young girl walked into a lift, and it went up before the girl had completely entered the lift. So the head ended up one floor above, and the rest of the body remained on the original floor :x
Nightmare.
I've been told of a building in Newcastle that used to have a always running chain lift. It was pulled out after an accident like this.
These accidents seem to happen quite frequently in China. Somebody lost a leg yesterday in another escalator accident.
Quote from: Monoriu on August 02, 2015, 09:49:31 PM
These accidents seem to happen quite frequently in China. Somebody lost a leg yesterday in another escalator accident.
I just kinda figure that, based on population, all horrific events have about a 3-4x chance of occurrence in China vis-a-vis America.
Except probably mass shootings (not government sanctioned ones, anyway). :P
Quote from: alfred russel on July 29, 2015, 12:26:26 PM
Why don't people walk on escalators? You are trying to get from point a to point b, just because the ground starts moving at some trivial pace toward the destination, you should stop walking?
I get it if you are awkwardly carrying luggage or something, or out of shape/ill to the point walking is a serious effort, but otherwise, lets keep it moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSUe_m19FY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSUe_m19FY)
Another Chinese escalator strikes.
http://gawker.com/man-loses-leg-after-falling-through-escalator-panel-1721744966
Quote from: Tonitrus on August 03, 2015, 12:09:05 AM
I just kinda figure that, based on population, all horrific events have about a 3-4x chance of occurrence in China vis-a-vis America.
:yes: Yup.
BUS ACCIDENT IN MANHATTAN, 3 INJURED
BUS ACCIDENT IN MUMBAI, 651 KILLED, 8,387 INJURED
Quote from: Caliga on August 03, 2015, 02:52:24 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on August 03, 2015, 12:09:05 AM
I just kinda figure that, based on population, all horrific events have about a 3-4x chance of occurrence in China vis-a-vis America.
:yes: Yup.
BUS ACCIDENT IN MANHATTAN, 3 INJURED
BUS ACCIDENT IN MUMBAI, 65 KILLED, 83 INJURED
^^^ More realistic. :sleep:
Cal's bus drove into a nuclear reactor.
Damn, what a terrible way to go.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/woman-found-dead-in-elevator-30-days-after-power-cut-off-by-building-workers
QuoteWoman found dead in elevator 30 days after power cut off by building workers
Maintenance crew detained after failing to check if anyone was in the elevator of a residential building in the city of Xi'an, in China's north-west
Associated Press
Sunday 6 March 2016 07.24 GMT Last modified on Sunday 6 March 2016 07.26 GMT
A building maintenance crew has been detained after a woman was found dead inside an elevator that had its power improperly cut off 30 days earlier, local Chinese authorities have said.
The Gaoling district government in the north-western city of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, said on Saturday that two maintenance workers turned off the power source on 30 January in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch. However, they failed to check if anyone was inside the elevator.
The district said the maintenance crew found a female corpse there on 1 March when they returned for repairs.
The woman was identified as a 43-year-old resident who was living by herself. Police ruled out any foul play but concluded her death was caused by the gross negligence on the part of the maintenance crew in a case of involuntary manslaughter, the government said.
China has poor records on workplace safety where proper safety procedures and practices are routinely ignored.
In July, a Chinese woman was killed when she was swallowed by a mall escalator when a metal platform on top of the escalator suddenly caved in. She was holding her two-year-old son then but threw the child to safety when she fell.
I read another elevator story in the news. A family of three went downstairs together. The wife took the baby and went back home to retreive something while the father waited for them in the lobby. The father never heard from them again.
A few days later, their bodies were found *on top* of an elevator. The police theory was that the elevator malfunctioned, and the door opened when the elevator wasn't there. The wife absent-mindedly stepped in anyway and dropped to her death.
:(
QuoteThe Gaoling district
Fuck yeah. :bb:
Quote from: The Brain on March 06, 2016, 11:50:46 PM
:(
QuoteThe Gaoling district
Fuck yeah. :bb:
Gao means high. Ling means tomb, and a high class one. Xian was the capital of many ancient Chinese dynasties like Tsin, Han and Tong. A lot of nobles, senior officials, members of the royal family and emperors were buried in that area. Many tombs are constructed with a relatively high elevation.
BB has sent many miscreants away to their high tomb.