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Here's a little more info. The emergency buzzer doesn't indicate which of 3 elevators it's coming from, so when personnel went to follow up on the buzzes, they didn't check the elevator they knew was not operational. Somehow, the man got in there from the parking lot, having wandered in from a nearby nursing home.
An investigation into the death by the Denver Police Department revealed that Komisarchik pushed the emergency button twice during an 8-minute span on July 6 but got no response, The Denver Post reported Thursday. The calls went to MEI Total Elevator Solutions, which reported them to the apartment complex, Woodstream Village. Apartment complex staffers checked two elevators, but not the one containing Komisarchik
The power would have been disengaged during construction or changes.
Two flaws: one that it was operating and two,that the staff wasn't operating on all cylinders. Any fire chief would tell it's team...To check all elevators for power,status and floor location. Dementia ,hmmm...He sent out a call twice..Seems he had some common sense !
Do you have any idea how many people traveled in elevators in this country on Friday alone? Nearly every building over 3 stories tall has an elevator, they are constantly in motion full of people. That has to literally be millions or perhaps billions of people on that one day alone. How many died on Friday in an elevator accident?
A criminal investigation confirmed the number of times the emergency button was pushed, Denver Fire Department spokesman Capt. Greg Pixley said. Now detectives are trying to determine why no one responded.
“Something is not right,” Pixley said
MEI Total Elevator Solutions monitors the elevator for Woodstream. [apartment complex] MEI did not reply to several phone messages left by The Denver Post seeking comment.
Ironic!
Sound like they are about to loose a lot of business - especially if they service a lot of senior assisted living communities. I do wonder if there was a separate bell button.
Elevators are always dangerous. Dependence on them is a death lottery ticket.
The odds of you personally winning the lottery is 1 in 84 Quadrillion. Elevators are much more dangerous.
Google says:
"According to ConsumerWatch.com, “U.S. elevators make 18 billion passenger trips per year.”
Those trips result in about 27 deaths annually, according to estimates from
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
That works out to a fatality rate of 0.00000015% per trip.Dec 15, 2011"
So why did he only hit the emergency button twice? I would have hit that thing constantly!!!!
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