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Great show today everyone as I found over thirty elevator related news stories online and had to cut some of them out. We’ve got two major announcements on the show today. One will talk about a caption contest we’re sponsoring and the other has to do with a new web site that we’ve launched. Both of which you should enjoy. Hopefully snow isn’t falling where you’re at as here in Chicago we’re heading into our third or fourth winter storm warning. Be safe out there!
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What Would You Do If?
Man Critical After Escalator Fall
Debating Design
Lawsuit Filed Over Elevator Design
Prison Staff Pleads for Better Facilities
Amelia Island Museum of History Research Library Reopens
Elevator Tower Garbed Pink For Cure
ThyssenKrupp Wins Order In Beijing
Student Sentenced For 2 Months For Assault – What a Boob!
City Municipal Elevator Getting Makeover
Thorp Set To Be Shut Down For Weeks
Ballpark Figure For Elevator Installation In Town Hall
Purdue Police Investigating Reported Indecent Elevator Exposure
KONE to Push For R&D
Group Taking Donations For Elevator Style Lift – Indiana
KONE Expects Smooth Ride in 2008
Ask Marilyn – What To Do If An Elevator Falls – Huh?
Women Attacked in Elevator in Harlem Building
AAI Told To Pay For Death of Child At Airport
New Illinois Law Benefits Bensenville Company
Muzak & Elevator Music Face Uphill Battle
Elevator Man Still On Job
Parkade Flooding Blamed on Sewage Station
CTA Plans To Complete Escalator Renovations In 2008
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Tom
How have you been long time no talk. Your show is very interesting. I do have a comment about the airlines being sued and not the elevator contractor. Large contracts like transit authorities and airports do have people going around”inspecting” the escalators mainly to see if they are operating, these people have no expertise as far as the safety and other features of these people movers that is why they contract out to the experts, the elevator contractors. Consultants do get involved but these are quarterly audits and meetings with the contractor to go over shutdowns and repairs.
The story about an airport being sued in an accident case is not uncommon. In this country the injured party sues the contractor and the owner if they are not employed by that owner. The airports direct people to take escaltators to various locations with little or no supervision on who or what is placed on the escalators. So we have people carrying babies, people with luggage, airport employees with luggage and no visible signs advising people to use elevator with luggage, strollers, etc. So picture this, a piece of luggage gets gets jammed sideways in the escalator and what do we have, a blockade where people and luggage are fed into human pile. What chance does an elderly person, a baby or small chid have with this scenerio, little or none. One case involved a woman who got her foot caught in the bottom combplate, which was broken before the accident, and what followed was a pile up of humans resulting in people getting injured and some people jumping off the escalator.
Joe Morrissey