"..9 people and 11 turds on bu bu board"
Posted on 11/18/2018 1:27:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
It took nearly three hours to rescue six people stuck in an elevator in Chicago’s fourth-tallest building early Friday.
A broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to malfunction while guests who had just left the Signature Room on the 95th floor rode down toward the lobby. The elevator and two others have since been closed to the public while repairs are made and investigators figure out what happened.
When rescuers scrambled to find the stuck elevator early Friday morning, there were no openings between floors because of the building’s blind-shaft style layout. The rescue crew had to hammer out a concrete wall in the garage area of the 11th floor. Today, cables were dangling next to the cracked door where the people trapped in the elevator were pulled to safety.
“It was a precarious situation where we had the cable break on top of the elevator (and) we couldn’t do an elevator-to-elevator rescue we had to breach a wall,” said Chicago Battalion Fire Chief Patrick Maloney.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
Good news is the safety brake worked.
Right. After an 84 floor free fall. That's never supposed to happen.
Apparently after 84 floors.
Kind of chintzy for Hancock to be cutting corners on elevator maintenance, isn’t it? Wonder how much the lawsuits will cost?
It sounds worse than chintzy to me. I believe routine inspections of elevators are mandated virtually everywhere. Sounds to me like somebody was making under-the-table payments to somebody in a government position to skip the inspections. Who’d a thunk it, in Chicago of all places?!
Diaper changes all around
I’ll give you a more likely scenario.
A good public servant walks in to the Hancock and tags out the elevator for inspection. Then proceeds to a bar to fill out his inspection report while he has a couple of beers.
He then returns to the Hancock and pulls his tags and tags out another elevator and returns to the bar.
He repeats this routine at the Hancock until he has tagged out all of the elevators in the hotel. He inspects about two elevators a day in this fashion all over Chicago.
Facebook news?
Supposition.
Just doing the math but, good thing they did not fall from 80th floor or lower?
Not sure what safety brakes are like in a skyscraper elevator but I am familiar with the safety brakes in a mine shaft. Those safety brakes don’t allow a fall of more than a couple of feet. I wonder what happened here?
The inspection sticker in on display on the elevators control panel along with the signature of the inspector. Tough to falsify that’s with your name on line.
"..9 people and 11 turds on bu bu board"
Yep - wonder if any of them exclaimed, “Thank Otis!”.....
Been in those elevators. Scary. Lucky to be alive.
Nah, too busy looking for a lawyer.
Nah, too busy looking for a lawyer.
Wow. I’ll take the stairs.
OMG!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.