webfact Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Phuket hotel maid dies in service lift accidentPhuket GazetteHotel maid Jaruwan Prasit, 21, leaned into the service lift when it accidentally activated. Photo: Kritsada MueanhawongPHUKET: -- A hotel maid died at a Phuket resort yesterday afternoon when her neck was broken by a service lift being activated while she was leaning inside, trying to retrieve a clothes iron.Karon Police arrived at the Phuket Peach Blossom Resort in Karon to find the body of Jaruwan Prasit, 21, inside the lift shaft, lying on top of the service elevator.“It took Ruamjai Foundation rescue workers almost two hours to recover the body,” Karon Police Deputy Superintendent Pachai Matthayan told the Phuket Gazette.Hotel staff told police Ms Jaruwan was retrieving bed linen from the lift when the accident occurred.“When the service lift arrived, she started unloading bedsheets, pillowcases and other stuff. She was almost finished unloading, she only had to get the iron,” one maid told the Gazette.“While she was trying to reach the iron, the lift accidentally started going down and she was pulled down with it,” the staffer said.“We are so sorry that we could not help her at all,” she added.Anurak Chuaysri, Executive Assistant Manager at the resort, told the Gazette the tragedy has taken its toll on their staff.“This has deeply saddened everyone here. The service lift has been shut down and we have contacted our elevator maintenance crew to inspect the lift and make it safe.“We don’t want any more incidents like this, or our staff being put at risk,” Mr Anurak said.Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2013/Phuket-hotel-maid-dies-in-service-lift-accident-22792.html-- Phuket Gazette 2013-11-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaullyW Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 My god. Lift moves with the goddamn doors open. In case anyone thought Thailand was not fully a undeveloped country. You are not safe anywhere here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espinoza Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 "The service lift has been shut down and we have contacted our elevator maintenance crew to inspect the lift and make it safe." Then everything is ok ? Why did they not make it safe before ? Someone should be hanged for this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dararasmi Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeThePoster Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 This was a service lift, so no chance of anyone on the inside in a hurry to press the door close button as per standard procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneday Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Things like this just keep reinforcing the "Lip Service" Thailand gives to safety. So sad for the lost of such a young life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RigPig Posted November 16, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2013 Hmmmm should be impossible to happen, perhaps someone bypassed a safety because it was inconvenient or a cheap "easy" way to keep it going..... NAH that wouldn't happen...would it ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsailor35 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 My god. Lift moves with the goddamn doors open. In case anyone thought Thailand was not fully a undeveloped country. You are not safe anywhere here. Just wait till Thailand gets its first High Speed Train. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpyoldman Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Truly terrible.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silent Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 My god. Lift moves with the goddamn doors open. In case anyone thought Thailand was not fully a undeveloped country. You are not safe anywhere here. Very true. Last I remember has to be12 years back this sort of occurrence happening in Canada. Had to be until they decided to come up with rules, regulations and routine maintenance schedules and Sure enough, that was really only the under-developed parts of Toronto, where the mechanics maybe just weren't doing what they were supposed to. Or maybe somebody circumvents a safety device for one reason or another to add to an endless list, but in a way more sophisticated den of iniquity than Thailand's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 My god. Lift moves with the goddamn doors open. In case anyone thought Thailand was not fully a undeveloped country. You are not safe anywhere here. Just wait till Thailand gets its first High Speed Train. ............or, the much talked about first nuclear power station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrens54 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 So sad and so avoidable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 A young life taken before the full blossoming. Rest in Peace Dear Lady. May she not hear the acidic and venomous remarks that accompany her passing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMarlow Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 A young life taken before the full blossoming. Rest in Peace Dear Lady. May she not hear the acidic and venomous remarks that accompany her passing. Always a great shame when anyone loses their life but you're being a little over-dramatic, not to say imaginative, there, don't you think? Perhaps you could point out just one "acidic and venomous" remark that has been posted prior to your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Inflammatory post removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naroge Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 "The service lift has been shut down and we have contacted our elevator maintenance crew to inspect the lift and make it safe." Is this really according to Thai procedures? What should happen is that the police should cordon off the area around the "incident" and perform an independent evaluation what really happened, before the hotel staff together with the maintenance company get the chance to remove any "evidence". With the present procedure no one will be held responsible, and no one will learn how to avoid such incidents in the future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tingtongteesood Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 As usual the idiots just ignore the dangerous problems in the hope nothing bad will happen. Then when it does they say they will sort it out - I will bet this time next year it still hasn't been made any safer less dangerous than it is now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 A young life taken before the full blossoming. Rest in Peace Dear Lady. May she not hear the acidic and venomous remarks that accompany her passing. Always a great shame when anyone loses their life but you're being a little over-dramatic, not to say imaginative, there, don't you think? Perhaps you could point out just one "acidic and venomous" remark that has been posted prior to your post. Yes, you are correct. I was a bit over-dramatic and for that I beg pardon of the readers of this forum. The comment concerning "acidic and venomous" remarks was a bit premature. It was intended as a reference for postings not yet made, for which I also beg pardon. Thank you for the kind reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XINLOI Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 My god. Lift moves with the goddamn doors open. In case anyone thought Thailand was not fully a undeveloped country. You are not safe anywhere here. Just wait till Thailand gets its first High Speed Train. Or one of five, nuke reactors...........lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthpig Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Someone should be hanged for this. Someone was. Someone always pays a high price when society undervalues life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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