Posted on 03/06/2016 2:23:46 PM PST by Pan_Yan
A woman’s corpse was found in an elevator in China about a month after an elevator maintenance crew improperly shut off its power, trapping her inside, without checking to see if it was empty.
The body of the 43-year-old building resident, who was living by herself, was discovered on March 1, several weeks after the elevator in Xi’an had been turned off over complaints about a glitch, the Associated Press reports.
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The foreman of the maintenance crew will probably have to be executed.
Nope.
China has a massive population, not gonna miss one.
I was on a project in China recently. At dinner the night before it was to start the Chinese Project manager casually commented that “we always plan on losing a few people”.
Poor woman. One of my greatest fears is being trapped in an elevator.
Apparently Chinese industry is slowly making the shift to better quality control and working environments but it’s like turning the Titanic with a spatula sized rudder.
Only in the U.S. would you “notice” a strange odor.
Outside NYC, yes.
I guess the advanced technology of elevator alarms and emergency phones hasn't reached China yet.
The elevator had the power shut off. No power, no way to communicate.
“I guess the advanced technology of elevator alarms and emergency phones hasn’t reached China yet.”
Wellllll. . . . . . .maybe not so much here, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxconvkLz2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgj4odDEZfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDR0ESS3MM
Elevator phones in the U.S. are independent of the elevators themselves. Most still use traditional copper phone lines.
I am a bit claustrophobic so no; I do not particularly like elevators, especially after I was trapped in one for a time during a power outage.
I was working on the 5th floor of a 5 story and recently constructed office building and was riding the elevator all alone, down to the lobby to then go outside and take a mid-morning smoke break.
All of a sudden the elevator lurched to a stop and the lights went out – it was pitch black.
I assumed the emergency power would come on and the elevator would at least take me to the nearest floor and open, but no, it didn’t and so I used my cigarette lighter to get some light for a few seconds at a time.
After about another 5 minutes I could faintly hear sirens and thought – “OMG! The building is on fire and I’m stuck in the elevator”. I picked up the emergency phone but it was dead. Now I was starting to feel a bit panicky but at least I didn’t smell any smoke.
After 10 minutes more, I heard the sound of people and the squawks of fire department radios and then I started yelling “Hey. I’m in the elevator! Can anybody hear me?” but no one answered so then I started yelling even louder and finally someone answered and said, “We hear you and we are getting you out, just be patient.”
After about another 10 minutes the elevator finally moved and the door opened, not between floors but not exactly at the floor either so I had to be helped out by two firemen.
IIRC, there was a power outage because of a nearby transformer explosion but it caused a power surge that caused a malfunction of the building’s emergency generator.
It was the longest 30 minutes of my life and after that, for a long time I took the stairs both up and down, but in the long run that was good because I quit smoking and lost some weight : )
But what this poor woman went through, must have been horrific.
I too am clostrophic and elevators are not my favorite place.
I always take the stairs.
I guess batteries haven’t reached china yet....
Usually the emergency equipment should work in a power outage
That is the point of it
What a horrible way to go.
Wow, what an experience.
The crew will probably all be executed for failing to check the elevator. And they deserve it.
There is also the problem of relatives notifying the police about a missing person. In China, the police may already know.
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