Escalator incident at Kad Suan Kaew

[Tywais]

I was on a rare visit to Kad Suan Kaew to get a xmas present, yes I'm a last minute shopper. Just stepped on a down escalator when it just suddenly stopped. There was some commotion at the bottom and saw a non-Thai family with two kids. At first I thought one of them hit the stop button playing around but saw one kid hopping around and had a terrible thought of another news story in the making.

Began walking down the escalator with everyone else and looked around for a security guard for assistance. Nearly at the end I saw a small tennis shoe wedged between the wall of the escalator and the escalator track and a security guard meandering over to see what the fuss was about. Kid was hopping around on one foot, but he was intact. I asked the family if he was ok and they laughed and said he was.

Apparently there must be a safety feature in the escalator that detects a jam or this could have been quite serious. Ever since that terrible accident in Bangkok where the young girl got her head caught between the escalator and the wall signs have been put on all escalators not to allow unaccompanied children on them.

Just a heads up to be watchful of your kids when riding them.

[MESmith]

I guess that's why the thais stand still on them. We walk up & down, slalom style around the stationary locals. Living on the edge

[worgeordie]

The parents laughed about it !

regards Worgeordie

[Tywais]

The parents laughed about it !

regards Worgeordie

I would say a bit of a nervous laugh really.

[bangmai]

The signs in the west say something like "grab child's hand on escalator." I've noticed some herds of fat farang families at KSK over the last few days. They really need to leash the children. Some idiot let his little brat shine a laser pointer right in my eyes, while I was sitting at a bar on MM. I still regret not breaking the father's arm, and holding the kid's head in the moat water until he became very familiar with Jesus.

[cyberfarang]

When 12 years old, I was traveling on the London Underground, arrived at Mansion House station and stepped foot on the downward escalator or moving stairs as I called them as a kid. Made of wood in those days. There was a man in front of me wearing a suit and bowler hat holding a briefcase, probably an office worker. This was during the 1960s. Then the man began to wobble and suddenly collapsed, he fell down the whole flight of the escalator ending up as a heap at the bottom with the escalator still moving. I ran down to look at the man then a crowd of people gathered around him. He looked like he was dead, maybe a heart attack or something. Station staff moved us out of the way.

Never forgot that terrible scene, especially as a kid. I`ve had a fear of escalators ever since.

[FolkGuitar]

I recently read a report concerning the safety of soft shoes vs escalators. It seems that several styles of soft rubber/plastic shoes are able to get squeezed down by the weight of the wearer and trapped between the moving belt of the stairs and the side-wall of the escalator. Keep your feet (and your children's feet) towards the center of the step for safety.

[rawhod]

Since seeing the video of the Chinese lady disappear down with the escalator mechanism, I always test the integrity of the steel coverplate at the bottom or top of the escalator with my foot before stepping on to it.

[PostmanPat]

A couple of years ago a young man in Nottingham lost two or three toes from a faulty escalator. As he reached the top, part of the metal guard rail beneath which the escalator moves was missing, he wasnt paying attention and his foot literally went into the mechanics of the thing. Ouch! He was badly injured, the escalator in question is now a staircase and the company who owned the escalator ( a small shopping mall) was prosecuted and very heavily fined.

[LannaGuy]

In China an unfortunate lady got cut in half this year. Thank God this kid only lost a tennis shoe.

[true blue]

moving experience,that

[Trujillo]

I don't believe anyone was "cut in half" by an escalator.

[Cpkt8]

Ladies wearing long skirts gotta be careful as well. My skirt was once caught into the escalator edge. Quickly pulled out real hard, couldn't be bothered if it was torn. Close shave!

[Cpkt8]

When 12 years old, I was traveling on the London Underground, arrived at Mansion House station and stepped foot on the downward escalator or moving stairs as I called them as a kid. Made of wood in those days. There was a man in front of me wearing a suit and bowler hat holding a briefcase, probably an office worker. This was during the 1960s. Then the man began to wobble and suddenly collapsed, he fell down the whole flight of the escalator ending up as a heap at the bottom with the escalator still moving. I ran down to look at the man then a crowd of people gathered around him. He looked like he was dead, maybe a heart attack or something. Station staff moved us out of the way.

Never forgot that terrible scene, especially as a kid. I`ve had a fear of escalators ever since.

Witnessed my Grandmother fell down the whole flight of escalator 30 years ago. Luckily she didn't died from the fall. But since then I have to hold on to the escalator handrail whenever I'm onto one.

[LannaGuy]

I don't believe anyone was "cut in half" by an escalator.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/27/china/chinese-mother-killed-escalator/

"Two other mall employees try to drag Xiang out, but within a few seconds, she disappears through the hole into the escalator shaft.

Despite a four-hour rescue operation at the upscale AZG Mall in central China, firefighters declared Xiang dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body Sunday afternoon, state media reported."

Edited December 25, 2015 by LannaGuy

[Trujillo]

Yeah, I saw that. Where does it say the woman was "cut in half"?

This is how misinformation is spread via the internet, which is never wrong....

[NancyL]

I've read where many more people are injured/killed in escalator accidents than in elevator (lift) accidents every year.

[Frank James]

This was a grim thread!