Elevator counterweight kills Phuket hotel worker

By The Nation

 

 

PHUKET: -- A worker of a hotel near Phuket’s Patong Beach was crushed to death by an elevator’s counterweight Friday morning, police said.

The accident happened in the basement of a hotel in Tambon Patong of Krathu district at 7:20am.

 

The killed worker was identified as Suthep Lookyi, 32, who worked as a room boy for the hotel.

 

Other workers said Suthep accidentally dropped a room key into the elevator chamber and tried to retrieve it from the basement floor without informing the elevator service department first. The counterweight crushed him when a hotel guest then used the elevator.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30323524

 

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In the civilised world opening a lift shaft access would cause the lift to lock out, unless of course it had long been overidden due to the retrieval by the unqualified being a regular occurrence 

Every job has it's up & down and  in this case someone was exactly going down ... 

He won't do that again.

Tragedy but how stupid must you be to do something like that

A tragedy indeed, for him and his loved, all for the sake of a couple of bucks worth of hardware.