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Posted
11 hours ago, riclag said:

My wife says she’s only gonna use the stairs in the future!

My local Big C has no stairs, only access via 2 escalators.

Posted
14 hours ago, KannikaP said:

How can a person get leg trapped in an escalator. The gaps are too small. Unless a malfunction on the stairs.

Look google to see what can happen on those things,, it’s scary…

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Posted
12 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Absolutely a malfunction and likely negligence.

I could not quite get it from the Thairath article but they compare to some "China" case where a person was even killed. Falling into some collapsing "floor plate".

Terrible!

How many million Dollars in compensation would that be in the US? And here?

Here? compensation???

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Posted
4 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

Getting her foot lacerated would have been a serious injury! She lost her leg on a moving walkway because simple basic maintenance /repair was not completed at a major international airport.

 

Shocking shameful negligence by airport.???? 

     Yes, totally shocking and shameful.  But, wasn't it just wonderful that they made the--certainly very tough--decision to temporarily close the walkway to do some checking of it.   Well, duh.  Let's let the president of AOT be the first to walk on it once it's been declared 'safe'.

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There are things here that don't make sense to me. The first photo shows very little damage of the walkway, and absolutely no way that could mangle her leg. The second photo appears to show most of her leg missing, yet the report says the leg was amputated below the knee.

 

I do understand that she could trip while preparing to leave the walkway with her suitcase, and that might happen several times a day - especially if people are looking at their phone instead of paying attention (not saying that is the case here). But that shouldn't result in such an accident.

 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Something wrong with this photo ...

Would you sit there like this , when your leg has just been cut off ?

Below the knee ?

Where is the blood ?

Is she 57 yrs old ?

 

Anyway , if that really happened , sue the <deleted> out of them ...

And the Earth is flat, moon landings faked and Elvis is still alive...????

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Posted
3 hours ago, harleyclarkey said:

Ive a strong stomach but that Mail photo is too graphic for me.

I'm very surprised that a UK publication has shown such a harrowing,gory picture.

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1 hour ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

image.png

 

Something wrong with this photo ...

Would you sit there like this , when your leg has just been cut off ?

Below the knee ?

Where is the blood ?

Is she 57 yrs old ?

 

Anyway , if that really happened , sue the <deleted> out of them ...

Yeah, it was all a set up, the lizard people did it

Posted
13 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

From the photos, it looks to me like the case wheels got jammed in between the moving section of the travellator and the guard, and she's followed it in with her foot.

 

Very nasty indeed.  

No one was close enough to hit the Emergency Stop button? There should be one quite close to the end of the travellator????

Posted
15 hours ago, sallecc said:

In other news reports (from UK and Singapore) it says that she actually "lost lower part of her left leg"... that's horrible.

It says in the article, that a young woman had her left leg ripped off just below the knee.

Posted
15 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

The problem is there are no risk assessments performed, or if they are done, are not done properly or done by people that are not competent. 

 

Health and safety is not a concern here. Seen as a hindrance to profit by greedy bosses.

Maintenance is another concept totally foreign to Thais.  Buy it new and keep running it until chewing gum, fencing wire and electrical tape wont keep it going any longer, then you buy a new one (unless somebody gets killed in the meantime).

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Was this truly a freak accident as claimed, or a severe lack of maintenance and substandard safety inspections? We all know public safety is not exactly an obsession here. 

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This disaster at Thailand's second major airport has hit the international news, in the UK and USA thank goodness.and hopefully other countries.

How this happened is probably down to faulty maintenance, knowing Thailand, but could of course be mechanical failure, we will have to wait and see?

So sorry for the poor woman who's leg had to amputated, lets hope she is OK and she gets amply compensated for this tragedy!

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A lot of "sue them" and over-specialised answers to this thread but nobody cares about "the loss of image to this beautiful country" by this accident.

Where are the regular posters in this forum with their "happens everywhere in the world"?
Not only in Thailand.

Speedy recovery to this woman.
 

 

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

There are things here that don't make sense to me. The first photo shows very little damage of the walkway, and absolutely no way that could mangle her leg. The second photo appears to show most of her leg missing, yet the report says the leg was amputated below the knee.

 

I do understand that she could trip while preparing to leave the walkway with her suitcase, and that might happen several times a day - especially if people are looking at their phone instead of paying attention (not saying that is the case here). But that shouldn't result in such an accident.

 

 

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You might notice in the pic of the comb plates that some engineering genius decided that to get the fixing screws  equidistance apart the plates cannot be identical in width,this is a major concern as teams replacing damaged plates may run out of plates of one particular size during regular maintenance  visit.

Maybe AOT should keep a room full of spare plates 

Just saying

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Posted
11 minutes ago, norbra said:

You might notice in the pic of the comb plates that some engineering genius decided that to get the fixing screws  equidistance apart the plates cannot be identical in width,this is a major concern as teams replacing damaged plates may run out of plates of one particular size during regular maintenance  visit.

Maybe AOT should keep a room full of spare plates 

Just saying

My point was that there doesn't appear to be any gap big enough for her leg could slip in to.

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