Another Woman Killed By A Scumbag Elevator

damn elevators!!! freaky..

I’m thinking the elevators are just looking out for our health and well-being. Every elevator horror story pushes me that much closer to walking my fat ass up the stairs. Thanks Scumbag elevators.

Damn it, from here on out I’m taking only escalators.  They never kill people.  Oh wait.  Never mind. 

Why couldn’t it be stairs that are killing people?  Ug, now I can’t be lazy for fear of a-hole elevators.

I foresee a new bill drafted by Congress: The Elevator Protection Act
In it, they will outline the dangers of these tools obviously crafted by Satan himself, and lament on the reasons why we need to be protected from them. Soon, we will be forced to exclusively use stairs *shudders*

The Shining,what a GREAT movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA  

Although,this sounds more like a Final Destination.

Three elevator deaths in such a short time got me wondering if it happens more than we think, or actually hear about…sooooo I googled it. (I <3 Google!)  I found an article on Consumerwatch.com.

Statistics of Elevator FailureCity and state governments are fairly diligent in ensuring that annual public elevator inspections are carried out and reported properly. However, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is not authorized to regulate elevators as it does other products such as automobiles or personal equipment, so elevators and elevator parts are not subject to federal accident inspections or parts recalls. Without a requirement of public parts recalls due to defect, there is little widely available printed information regarding elevator defects.When an elevator or escalator product is identified by the manufacturer as having a design defect, it is only required to send out a product letter by certified mail to equipment owners. Thus, the press and general public rarely find out about such faulty products until deaths or injuries have occurred.What is known is that about 27 people are killed in elevator accidents each year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the CPSC, which does report on injury and death associated with elevators. Injuries from elevators affect about 10,200 people per year, with the majority of these accidents being related to elevator door malfunction, carriage misalignment with floors, and passenger safety vulnerabilities.The U.S. Labor Department’s Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries reports that half of the annual elevator-related fatalities occur in repair or maintenance workers who service elevators, or people who use elevators as part of their employment, such as in an office building. Of those, half of the fatalities result from falls into the shaft. In the occupational-related elevator deaths category, 53 percent occur during installation or repair, 17 percent occur during work in the shaft or car, and 30 percent occur during performance of work adjacent to (but not on board) the elevator.For passengers using elevators while not at work, such as in apartment buildings, almost half of the deaths were due to falls in the elevator shaft, and the other half occurred as a result of being caught between the elevator and the shaft wall. The underlying causes of the fatal incidents may be due to one of several defects or malfunctions, such as in the wiring, pulley systems, door operation, or improper maintenance procedures.http://www.consumerwatch.com/workplacepublic/elevators

Well, I like going up and down in an elevator. Hell, I enjoyed losing my head . . . I mean getting head. . . I mean. . .  I will do it on the stair well from now on. . .

Maximum Overdrive….

Never ever ever ever again… omg.  I already hated elevators, but all these stories, NEVER AGAIN!  O.O

Um…Yeah I’ll be taking the stairs from now on….

I am in midtown myself. I am wondering what building this was..

Love that movie.

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Yup, came here to say exactly this. You win, stairs!

Attention:  We are approaching critical pun.  This is not a test.  Please remain indoors until authorities have gotten to the bottom of the elevator crisis.

27 deaths per yr! How is it we here at the demon have only heard of a handful? I smell coverup and big payouts

Sorry guys, but I will take my chances with elevators.  No stairs for me. My CHF is not stair friendly. Hell, people get killed in cars everyday and no one starts walking or riding horses everywhere.

I will take the elevator, if I die…well I was going to some day anyway and it won’t hurt as long as a heart attack.

That’s EXACTLY what I was about to say!  Maybe elevators are doing their part to combat obesity by scaring us all to walk up flights of stairs…

Its a horrible overwhelming feeling that has been so bad it has caused me to vomit before.

@annagg Sure, it’s a real pic. Elevator malfunctioned several times within several hours. No one noticed and just kept getting on. As soon as they stepped in, they slid on the blood, guts and body parts which helped them along to their own elevator death. All that red stuff you see?? That’s the blood of about 15 entangled, eviscerated, decapitated bodies. (or what’s left of them) They were in such horrifying conditions, the person who found them committed suicide immediately thereafter from the trauma. That elevator is still up and running to this day. It was considered a freak accident.

Depends on the make of the door locks the sensors and if the proper maintenance was being done…They are switches that make have not fired, and/or the door motor (depending on what kind was installed and model) totally failed and didn’t communicate with the system..Even though there are many building that have upgraded and modernized their elevators to using controllers with boards including the doors motors, some building owners save money by just getting on or some parts of their elevators modernized..so you have a mechanical door operator  working on an upgraded computerized controller..there’s many reasons this could have happened but the bottom line is it shouldn’t have..

I was thinking we need a special registry for violent elevators. Think of the children!

I have read a couple dozen of his books, I enjoy them, but not the movies, for some reason…

I have to walk past an elevator to get to the kitchen for a cuppa at work. I just practically did a James-Bond-hugging-the-wall-as-far-away-as-possible-from-the-Contraption-Of-Death on the way back with my brew.

NOVA, on PBS, had a great show on the operation and failures of elevators. Kind of a warning NFC/W!

The malfunction most likely had something to do with the recent service work. As an hvac guy who has tried his hand at fixing a few elevators, unlicensed and untrained mind you, I’ve found its easy to jump out door safety switches which are usually just a high voltage loop. Over the course of eighty years god only knows how many safety switches are eliminated rather than replaced.
27 deaths a year kinda blew my mind. How many are attributed to shark attack per annum?

Yea, I was assuming it was older one.
You are right on track, too, for the ones I worked on were from the early twenties. I couldn’t do much with one of them though. It just looked like a large baffling array of relays in the control room. I didn’t want to kill anyone trying to figure it out with no wiring diagram, either.

I agree! I bought the set of the Green Mile books at a yard sale a few years before the movie came out. I read them all in a row in about 2 days and then re-read them right way, taking 4 days. I have read them about 5-6 times. I have watched the movie a dozen times, as well. Love them.