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Woman dies in freak NYC elevator accident

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Evlar said:
It appears to mean the elevator moved up suddenly with the doors open. If someone had just walked through, or was even still in the process of walking through, they might lose their balance and fall toward the opening just as it's passing above the door frame, thus lodging your body between the floor of the elevator and the top of the door.
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:(

I am never riding elevators again.
 
This was big news here yesterday; I work a few blocks away and a couple of friends in the ad industry knew her. :(

This is really unsettling for us highrise office workers.
 
Meadows said:
inb4 final destination
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I think you mean The Shaft.

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A few years ago, a woman plunged to her death when an elevator door opened with no car inside at my local county government center. This one sounds a lot more gruesome.
 
RotBot said:
A few years ago, a woman plunged to her death when an elevator door opened with no car inside at my local county government center. This one sounds a lot more gruesome.
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I hate people who just barge into an opening elevator without respect for the people who are trying to get the fuck out, but damn that's horrible.
 
I would assume panic and disbelief would be what kept the elevator occupants from pressing the emergency stop button.

Then again - some of those elevators move crazy fast now adays.
 
If the major networks run with this sorry, we're gonna see a huge spike in elevator phobias. God, what a sad, gruesome happening. Truly horrible.
 
This is why you should never stick your hand or leg through a closing elevator door to hold it open. How much do you trust those obstruction detection sensors?
 
My elevator at work has had dead inspections since July and it says on the inspection that it is authorized to carry 2,000 pounds or 0 passengers including the operator. It often has issues shutting the door and sometimes it starts to go up with the door still open until it realizes the door is still open so it stops and then shuts the door and carries on moving up. Or it forgets which direction it is supposed to go. I'm forced to use the elevator for the work I have to do, so using stairs isn't an option. This just contributes to my fear that the elevator will kill me one of these days.
 
Fucking elevators man...

I got stuck in an elevator in a foreign country all alone when I was around 11 years old once. After a few minutes I started getting scared, so I tried to kick in the window.

Gods knows how many minutes later, when they finally manage to break down the door my right foot is dangeling loosely from roughly half my ankle and I am lying in a pool of my own blood.
 
Lord_Byron28 said:
My elevator at work has had dead inspections since July and it says on the inspection that it is authorized to carry 2,000 pounds or 0 passengers including the operator. It often has issues shutting the door and sometimes it starts to go up with the door still open until it realizes the door is still open so it stops and then shuts the door and carries on moving up. Or it forgets which direction it is supposed to go. I'm forced to use the elevator for the work I have to do, so using stairs isn't an option. This just contributes to my fear that the elevator will kill me one of these days.
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Quit that job and run, man! And don't ever look back. We're witnessing the beginning of the elevator apocalypse. They've realized that they don't need us anymore.
 
Lord_Byron28 said:
My elevator at work has had dead inspections since July and it says on the inspection that it is authorized to carry 2,000 pounds or 0 passengers including the operator. It often has issues shutting the door and sometimes it starts to go up with the door still open until it realizes the door is still open so it stops and then shuts the door and carries on moving up. Or it forgets which direction it is supposed to go. I'm forced to use the elevator for the work I have to do, so using stairs isn't an option. This just contributes to my fear that the elevator will kill me one of these days.
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The elevators in this building failed inspection repeatedly.

For "administrative" reasons
 
Okay guys stop scaring me, I thought it was just the elevators at my university... They have almsot biannual repairs, buttons randomly don't work so you're stuck waiting to see which floor you'll end up at. Doors sometimes keep closing and opening, weird as fuck sounds when starting to move. I'm glad I usually only have to go 4 to 6 floors by stairs.
 
Fucking hate elevators for this exact reason. I know the odds are that nothing will happen but I think of either being squeezed by the doors or being stuck in an elevator just about every time I get in one. This is why I never hold the elevator for no one. I'll gladly look like an asshole so long as I get to keep both my arms/hands.
 
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The paternoster elevator design never stops, it just moves slowly enough for people to jump on an off. BTW 5 people were killed by paternosters from 1970 to 1993
 
Guevara said:
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The paternoster elevator design never stops, it just moves slowly enough for people to jump on an off. BTW 5 people were killed by paternosters from 1970 to 1993
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This sounds and looks like a really terrible idea and I cannot imagine how could any engineer/builder think otherwise.
 
ShadiWulf said:
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That's what I thought too. I always see people sticking their hands out to hold the elevator doors open. I've even done that once myself.
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That's one of the reason I never stick any of my body parts out of the elevator. If I want to get the doors open, I just quickly swipe my arm vertically to catch the sensors.
 
I work a block down from this building. I read this story yesterday and it haunted the hell out of me last night.

I have definitely stuck my hand our foot out to stop an elevator from closing; now I definitely won't do that.

That must have been horrific for everyone involved... god damn.
 
Szu said:
That's one of the reason I never stick any of my body parts out of the elevator. If I want to get the doors open, I just quickly swipe my arm vertically to catch the sensors.
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Don't most elevators react to resistance instead of the sensors you're talking about?
 
Funky Papa said:
This sounds and looks like a really terrible idea and I cannot imagine how could any engineer/builder think otherwise.
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There are videos of these running. They move so slowly you basically have to deliberately want to commit suicide to get "caught". They actually seem pretty cool and I wish small buildings here had them.

Also, while this story is completely fucking horrible, realize there are tens of thousands of elevator trips taken every day in NYC alone, shitty elevators and all, and this happens once in a generation apparently. This poor lady really did get final destinationed.

(but never stick your hand in a closing door, anyway)
 
Joe Shlabotnik said:
There are videos of these running. They move so slowly you basically have to deliberately want to commit suicide to get "caught". They actually seem pretty cool and I wish small buildings here had them.
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They're not that slow and when it's crowded someone could easily get their foot stuck.
 
Guevara said:
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The paternoster elevator design never stops, it just moves slowly enough for people to jump on an off. BTW 5 people were killed by paternosters from 1970 to 1993[/QUOTE]
Yep, those things always scare the shit out of me
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adamsappel said:
The subway car doors of the DC Metro do not bounce open if you stop them with your hand. There's always some tourist who tries to get on at the last minute and they get that panicked look when they think they're about to be dragged into the tunnel. The driver always (so far) looks, but they'll only open the doors enough for you to yank your limb back.

I can't imagine dying like that. If I had been in the elevator, I'd definitely need that trauma help.
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Yep, I have no idea how they let the doors operate like that. I have seen way, WAY too many close calls.
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
See this one seems more ignorance than anything. How big is this elevator to hold 24 people? Also it was 50% over weight capacity? Yet still this last guy tried to squeeze on?
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I was in an elevator today that had reached full capacity. When one more guy wanted to enter, an alarm went off and the elevator wouldn't go anywhere until someone got out. This should be mandatory for all elevators.
 
Evlar said:
It appears to mean the elevator moved up suddenly with the doors open. If someone had just walked through, or was even still in the process of walking through, they might lose their balance and fall toward the opening just as it's passing above the door frame, thus lodging your body between the floor of the elevator and the top of the door.
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Oh..... geez :(
 
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