Comments on: The Reality of Escalator Fatalities http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60 Writings of Gavin C. Schmitt Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: allybaby18 http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-243360 allybaby18 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:07:58 +0000 http://framingbusin.setupmyblog.com/2005/the-reality-of-escalator-fatalities/#comment-243360 Im afraid of escalators and this gives me even more of a reason to be.. Im afraid of escalators and this gives me even more of a reason to be..

]]> By: Bill http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-67073 Bill Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:06:58 +0000 http://framingbusin.setupmyblog.com/2005/the-reality-of-escalator-fatalities/#comment-67073 I would imagine that escalators are still much safer than stairs, where people stepping can slip, have heart attacks, ride railings, spill things, etc. Three deaths per year on escalators, with many of them being drunks or people who fall when riding the rail is acceptable. I would imagine that escalators are still much safer than stairs, where people stepping can slip, have heart attacks, ride railings, spill things, etc.

Three deaths per year on escalators, with many of them being drunks or people who fall when riding the rail is acceptable.

]]> By: Aby-a-Day – Day 297 of 365 « http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-56321 Aby-a-Day – Day 297 of 365 « Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:37:27 +0000 http://framingbusin.setupmyblog.com/2005/the-reality-of-escalator-fatalities/#comment-56321 [...] As I said yesterday, I’ve heard stories of people getting things caught on the escalator, and sometimes being seriously injured, but somehow I never quite understood the severity of these accidents. I’d always kind of thought they were an urban legend, the kind of dire threat that parents tell children to make them behave in public. After having done a little internet research, I know that isn’t true. People die on escalators! [...] [...] As I said yesterday, I’ve heard stories of people getting things caught on the escalator, and sometimes being seriously injured, but somehow I never quite understood the severity of these accidents. I’d always kind of thought they were an urban legend, the kind of dire threat that parents tell children to make them behave in public. After having done a little internet research, I know that isn’t true. People die on escalators! [...]

]]> By: Talonvaki http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-55695 Talonvaki Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:12:36 +0000 http://framingbusin.setupmyblog.com/2005/the-reality-of-escalator-fatalities/#comment-55695 It's not just humans. My cat just got his back foot stuck in an escalator! He likes to walk up stairs and escalators, and I let him as we were returning from an errand. At the top of the escalator, his foot got caught. I reacted extremely quickly and pulled him out, and all he had was a deep cut on his pad, but...yeah. He totally could have been sucked in. And people walk dogs up and down escalators all the time, too. Now, I always thought the whole "getting caught in the escalator" thing was an urban legend, or happened to people who were drunk or high or playing around in some way, but here, we were just walking! Up the escalator, like we do a hundred times a month. This happened in Boston at Broadway station. I couldn't help but notice the part of this article about the person from the Korean restaurant who died on an escalator in Boston...I know that restaurant, and that station without even looking at the source report: it's Porter Square in Cambridge. It's one of the longest escalators I've ever seen, and I have seen people sitting on A LOT (I lived near that station for many years). I didn't know that someone had actually died on it - and I was living there when it happened! Scary stuff. I don't think I'll ever take an escalator for granted ever again. It’s not just humans. My cat just got his back foot stuck in an escalator! He likes to walk up stairs and escalators, and I let him as we were returning from an errand. At the top of the escalator, his foot got caught. I reacted extremely quickly and pulled him out, and all he had was a deep cut on his pad, but…yeah. He totally could have been sucked in. And people walk dogs up and down escalators all the time, too. Now, I always thought the whole “getting caught in the escalator” thing was an urban legend, or happened to people who were drunk or high or playing around in some way, but here, we were just walking! Up the escalator, like we do a hundred times a month.

This happened in Boston at Broadway station. I couldn’t help but notice the part of this article about the person from the Korean restaurant who died on an escalator in Boston…I know that restaurant, and that station without even looking at the source report: it’s Porter Square in Cambridge. It’s one of the longest escalators I’ve ever seen, and I have seen people sitting on A LOT (I lived near that station for many years). I didn’t know that someone had actually died on it – and I was living there when it happened!

Scary stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever take an escalator for granted ever again.

]]> By: Harry C. Gibbens http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-52672 Harry C. Gibbens Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:59:19 +0000 http://framingbusin.setupmyblog.com/2005/the-reality-of-escalator-fatalities/#comment-52672 In the regard of the October 30, 2008 escalator accident, look at the recent September 25, 2010 article of The FRAMING BUSINESS. The escalator brought be back to the top landing. The wrong word of "be" should be "me". At the the top landing, below my wrist line which was incorrect. The wrong word of wristline should be "wraistline" Besides those wrong words which were recorrected as above, I wanted to encourage you to read one of the best elevator / escalator books. Here is: Recommendation: Elevator and Escalator Accident Reconstruction and Litgation Second Edition Authors of James Filippone Joel D. Feldman Ronald D. Schloss Davis A. Cooper Publisher: Lawyers & Judges Publising Company, Inc. P.O. Box 30040 Tucson, AZ 85751-0040 Phone: 800-209-7109 Fax: 800-330-8795 E-mail: sales@lawyersandjudges.com In the regard of the October 30, 2008 escalator accident, look at the recent September 25, 2010 article of The FRAMING BUSINESS. The escalator brought be back to the top landing. The wrong word of “be” should be “me”. At the the top landing, below my wrist line which was incorrect. The wrong word of wristline should be “wraistline”

Besides those wrong words which were recorrected as above, I wanted to encourage you to read one of the best elevator / escalator books. Here is:

Recommendation:
Elevator and Escalator Accident Reconstruction and Litgation
Second Edition
Authors of James Filippone
Joel D. Feldman
Ronald D. Schloss
Davis A. Cooper

Publisher: Lawyers & Judges
Publising Company, Inc.
P.O. Box 30040
Tucson, AZ 85751-0040

Phone: 800-209-7109
Fax: 800-330-8795
E-mail: sales@lawyersandjudges.com

]]> By: Harry C. Gibbens http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/60/comment-page-1#comment-48494 Harry C. Gibbens Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:14:57 +0000 http://framingbusin.setupmyblog.com/2005/the-reality-of-escalator-fatalities/#comment-48494 The accidental thing like escalator that disturbs me. I doubt that I am the first person to have even fallen, caused by a front cart with a suitcase knocking me down backward and I have entrapped under moving steps-combplate area of October 30, 2008 Escalator Accident. (NOTE: Do not place any cart or rolling cart or stroller in the front of you on escalator. Play safe to observe safety rules. SUGGESTION OF SAFETY INNOVATIONS: 1) Human emergency stopping device. 2) Surveillance camera overhead escalator. 3) Step-comb impact device or Combplate stop switch which can more readily be retrofit to existing escalators. 5) Emergency stop switch on sidewall at both upper and lower landings. 6) Large CAUTION SIGNS - not small Caution Signs. When combplate fingers are adjusted slightly above steps, please re-adjust the combplate vertically below the step's tread surface. The combplate have multiple teeth (fingers) which are detachable and are adjustabnle vertically. The comb teeth must be meshed with the slots in each step's tread surface so that the points of the comb teeth are always below the top of the step's tread surface. The purpose of the combs is transfer objects from the moving steps to the stationary combplate. It is a very effective device if properly installed and maintained. No excuse to ignore the properly safety adjustable service. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT CAUSES WITHIN THESE TWO BROAD CATEGORIES. ALTHOUGH THE VAST MAJORITY OF ESCALATOR ACCIDENTS ARE RELATED TO TRIPS AND FALLS, THE MOST SERIOUS ESCALATOR ACCIDENTS ARE RELATED TO ENTRAPMENT OF BODY PARTS. ENTRAPMENTS HAVE RESULTED IN AMPUTATIONS, DISFIGUREMENTS, SCALPINGS, AND DEATHS. IT HAS BEEN PROVED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE MOVING ESCALATOR STEP - COMBPLATE ENTRAPMENT WHICH CAUGHT ME INCLUDING MY BACK UPPER BODY PARTS INCLUDING MY RIGHT ARM. THE COMB TEETH WERE ABOVE THE STEP'S TREAD SURFACE. SO TO MY TOTE BAG WHICH WAS SHEARED WITH MANY HOLES, TOO. Note: I have experienced with a good conditioned tote bag which contained several magazines and books together in the bag. I had examined whether the combplate teeth might be above step's tread surface or below. I placed the tote bag on the moving escalator steps to see if the step-combplate would entrap the tote bag or not as a test purpose. Good news. The test passed successfully. That was my test on a chosen escalator which turned out to be safe. Attention for Code Enforcement Officer or escalator inspector during inspection: Please re-adjust each combplate carefully. Why don't you try to test each escalator to see if it is safe or not safe regularly? It is depending upon its comb teeth which may be below step's tread surface or slight above step's tread surface. When the comb teeth appear to be slight above step's tread surface, that is un safe condition and needs to be readjusted. BEWARE! The comb teeth (same as comb fingers) above step's tread surface are NOT recommended and are NOT safe. Unsafe and defective condition, notify: 1) OSHA Enforcement Unit or 2) Call Police Department This may help to save thousands of our people from injury as well as suffocation as well as death. The accidental thing like escalator that disturbs me.
I doubt that I am the first person to have even fallen, caused by a front cart with a suitcase knocking me down backward and I have entrapped under moving steps-combplate area of October 30, 2008 Escalator Accident.

(NOTE: Do not place any cart or rolling cart or stroller in the front of you on escalator. Play safe to observe safety rules.

SUGGESTION OF SAFETY INNOVATIONS:
1) Human emergency stopping device.
2) Surveillance camera overhead escalator.
3) Step-comb impact device or
Combplate stop switch which can more readily be retrofit to existing escalators.
5) Emergency stop switch on sidewall at both upper and lower landings.
6) Large CAUTION SIGNS – not small Caution Signs.

When combplate fingers are adjusted slightly above steps, please re-adjust the combplate vertically below the step’s tread surface. The combplate have multiple teeth (fingers) which are detachable and are adjustabnle vertically. The comb teeth must be meshed with the slots in each step’s tread surface so that the points of the comb teeth are always below the top of the step’s tread surface. The purpose of the combs is transfer objects from the moving steps to the stationary combplate. It is a very effective device if properly installed and maintained.
No excuse to ignore the properly safety adjustable service.

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT CAUSES WITHIN THESE TWO BROAD CATEGORIES. ALTHOUGH THE VAST MAJORITY OF ESCALATOR ACCIDENTS ARE RELATED TO TRIPS AND FALLS, THE MOST SERIOUS ESCALATOR ACCIDENTS ARE RELATED TO ENTRAPMENT OF BODY PARTS. ENTRAPMENTS HAVE RESULTED IN AMPUTATIONS, DISFIGUREMENTS, SCALPINGS, AND DEATHS.

IT HAS BEEN PROVED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE MOVING ESCALATOR STEP – COMBPLATE ENTRAPMENT WHICH CAUGHT ME INCLUDING MY BACK UPPER BODY PARTS INCLUDING MY RIGHT ARM. THE COMB TEETH WERE ABOVE THE STEP’S TREAD SURFACE. SO TO MY TOTE BAG WHICH WAS SHEARED WITH MANY HOLES, TOO.

Note: I have experienced with a good conditioned tote bag which contained several magazines and books together in the bag. I had examined whether the combplate teeth might be above step’s tread surface or below. I placed the tote bag on the moving escalator steps to see if the step-combplate would entrap the tote bag or not as a test purpose. Good news. The test passed successfully. That was my test on a chosen escalator which turned out to be safe.

Attention for Code Enforcement Officer or escalator inspector during inspection:
Please re-adjust each combplate carefully. Why don’t you try to test each escalator to see if it is safe or not safe regularly? It is depending upon its comb teeth which may be below step’s tread surface or slight above step’s tread surface. When the comb teeth appear to be slight above step’s tread surface, that is un safe condition and needs to be readjusted.

BEWARE! The comb teeth (same as comb fingers) above step’s tread surface are NOT recommended and are NOT safe. Unsafe and defective condition, notify:
1) OSHA Enforcement Unit or
2) Call Police Department

This may help to save thousands of our people from injury as well as suffocation as well as death.

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