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This morning, when I was on my way to work, I saw the fire department, police and news vans all over. Came to find out that a man had been riding an elevator and when the elevator got to the lobby, it "malfunctioned" and killed him. He became trapped between the elevator and the wall killing him.
What a horrible way to go when you're only 30 years old! Posting this to be careful out there!
This is so bad. I have nightmares about once a year about out of control elevators, but I always calmed myself down after waking up, telling myself this can't really happen in real life. YES IT CAN!
And now we'll have yet more elevator regulations. We just had to do a two day shutdown / five figure dollar amount job on our elevator for some silly city regulation.
The man was trying to stop the door from closing and he shoved his way through the doors as it was in the process of closing. Not that I am victim blaming because CLEARLY the elevator malfunctioned but I'll bet dollars to donuts that this guy was on his cell phone and not paying attention to where he was before he realized he didn't exit in time. 2 people walked out ahead of him. I see this in my building every day. People are completely unaware of their surroundings.
So people - PAY ATTENTION. Don't ever try to pry open closing doors whether it's the elevator or the subway, etc. These are large heavy mechanical objects.
The man was trying to stop the door from closing and he shoved his way through the doors as it was in the process of closing. Not that I am victim blaming because CLEARLY the elevator malfunctioned but I'll bet dollars to donuts that this guy was on his cell phone and not paying attention to where he was before he realized he didn't exit in time. 2 people walked out ahead of him. I see this in my building every day. People are completely unaware of their surroundings.
So people - PAY ATTENTION. Don't ever try to pry open closing doors whether it's the elevator or the subway, etc. These are large heavy mechanical objects.
Doesn't seem like he was at fault or contributed to it in any way. It was a freak thing and he got terribly unlucky. Terrible way to go and I feel for his family.
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