OG!! Escalator swallows woman, child saved by on-lookers

makapaaa · Jul 27, 2015

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BEIJING (AFP) - A woman was killed after she plunged through flooring over an escalator in a Chinese department store, reports said Monday, thrusting her toddler to safety as she fell to her death.

Xiang Liujuan, 30, was holding her son in front of her as they went up the stairway on Saturday, the Wuhan Evening News said.

Security camera footage of the incident posted online showed a panel in the floor giving way as Xiang stepped off the escalator. As she fell half-way through she pushed her son forward, and a nearby shop assistant dragged him to safety.

But the escalator continued rolling, and several seconds later Xiang is seen disappearing downwards into the mechanism, despite one of the staff briefly grabbing her hand.

It took firefighters more than four hours to cut open the machine and recover the woman, who showed "no signs of life", the newspaper report said.

The footage shows employees standing at the top of the escalator as the mother and child approach.

Maintenance had just been carried out on the escalator at the Anliang department store in Jingzhou in the central province of Hubei, and workers forgot to screw the access cover back into place, the newspaper cited an unnamed source as saying.

The accident was one of the top topics on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday with more than 6.6 million views.

Most comments expressed fury at the shop management.

"Why didn't the staffers stop customers at the entrance to the machine or just turn it off?" wrote one. "The department store is definitely responsible."

Others were moved by the woman's final actions.

"I was appalled when I saw her sink and at the same time felt the greatness of maternal love - the mother wasted no time pushing the child out when it happened," said one.

China is prone to safety accidents as regulations and standards are often flouted and enforcement is lax, sometimes due to corruption.

In 2012, a nine-year-old boy was killed after he got stuck in an escalator at a Beijing department store as horrified shoppers looked on.

In July 2011, a 13-year-old boy was killed and more than 20 others injured when an escalator in a Beijing underground station suddenly reversed direction during the rush hour.

Rockaria · Jul 27, 2015

CCTV catches escalator swallow toddler’s mother

[video=youtube;coqQHNnyHAw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coqQHNnyHAw[/video]

27 July 2015

LITTLEREDDOT · Jul 27, 2015

Re: CCTV catches escalator swallow toddler’s mother

What a horrible way to die. :(

Rockaria · Jul 27, 2015

Re: CCTV catches escalator swallow toddler’s mother

If i was there i would have press the emergency stop button.

xebay11 · Jul 27, 2015

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LITTLEREDDOT said:
What a horrible way to die. :(

Yes like sugar cane being ripped to shreds.

laksaboy · Jul 27, 2015

Re: CCTV catches escalator swallow toddler’s mother

In other news I see some China-brand escalators installed at certain malls and buildings. :wink:

xebay11 · Jul 27, 2015

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laksaboy said:
In other news I see some China-brand escalators installed at certain malls and buildings.

You should be more worried about Chinese technicians.

postnew · Jul 27, 2015

Final Destination China version

zeebjii · Jul 27, 2015

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laksaboy said:
In other news I see some China-brand escalators installed at certain malls and buildings.

And i understand that we'll be using china-brand DRIVERLESS trains to run on the new mrt lines.

palden · Jul 27, 2015

This will happen in Singapore if opposition wins the next election.

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BEIJING (AFP) - A woman was killed after she plunged through flooring over an escalator in a Chinese department store, reports said Monday, thrusting her toddler to safety as she fell to her death.

Xiang Liujuan, 30, was holding her son in front of her as they went up the stairway on Saturday, the Wuhan Evening News said.

Security camera footage of the incident posted online showed a panel in the floor giving way as Xiang stepped off the escalator. As she fell half-way through she pushed her son forward, and a nearby shop assistant dragged him to safety.

But the escalator continued rolling, and several seconds later Xiang is seen disappearing downwards into the mechanism, despite one of the staff briefly grabbing her hand.

It took firefighters more than four hours to cut open the machine and recover the woman, who showed "no signs of life", the newspaper report said.

The footage shows employees standing at the top of the escalator as the mother and child approach.

Maintenance had just been carried out on the escalator at the Anliang department store in Jingzhou in the central province of Hubei, and workers forgot to screw the access cover back into place, the newspaper cited an unnamed source as saying.

The accident was one of the top topics on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday with more than 6.6 million views.

Most comments expressed fury at the shop management.

"Why didn't the staffers stop customers at the entrance to the machine or just turn it off?" wrote one. "The department store is definitely responsible."

Others were moved by the woman's final actions.

"I was appalled when I saw her sink and at the same time felt the greatness of maternal love - the mother wasted no time pushing the child out when it happened," said one.

China is prone to safety accidents as regulations and standards are often flouted and enforcement is lax, sometimes due to corruption.

In 2012, a nine-year-old boy was killed after he got stuck in an escalator at a Beijing department store as horrified shoppers looked on.

In July 2011, a 13-year-old boy was killed and more than 20 others injured when an escalator in a Beijing underground station suddenly reversed direction during the rush hour.

virus · Jul 27, 2015

yes.. use them to crush FAP IBs... cheaper by the dime

Microsoft · Jul 27, 2015

technician 4get to tighten panel...papies bring in tiong tell technicians...see when 1 of dis days our talent 4get to tighten de panel too... :biggrin:

Dark Knight · Jul 27, 2015

Let me tell you ...... a lot of those lifts in HDB are now made in China.
Contractors now hired ah tiong and ah neh technicians to install and maintain them.
It's scary what could happen to those lifts due to the poor quality and workmanship.

Black Swan · Jul 27, 2015

The report didn't state the departmental store was OG. So title of this thread misleading. TS could be sued by OG.

songsongjurong · Jul 27, 2015

our escalators,lifts are serviced by PRC techs....good the luck,everybody else...

xebay11 · Jul 27, 2015

songsongjurong said:
our escalators,lifts are serviced by PRC techs....good the luck,everybody else...

Just don't go during the first opening hours.

Dark Knight · Jul 28, 2015

[video=youtube;9nR8gdl66r8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nR8gdl66r8[/video]

Be-careful when you are taking the escalator.
Even a runaway trolley with load can be dangerous.

Pirelli · Jul 28, 2015

Chinese escalator horror raises safety concerns

Public safety called into question after mother frantically saves son before she is swallowed by escalator in Hubei shopping mall tragedy

PUBLISHED : Monday, 27 July, 2015, 11:44am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 28 July, 2015, 2:19am

Nectar Gan and Mandy Zuo

The accident was recorded by a surveillance camera at the mall. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Concerns over the safety of China’s public facilities swamped the internet after a malfunctioning escalator fatally swallowed a woman shopper in front of her son at a mall in Hubei on Sunday.

Xiang Liujuan, 30, was killed when the flooring at the top of an escalator collapsed as she stepped on it. She pushed her two-year-old son to safety before being dragged into the machinery, the Wuhan Evening News said. The tragedy drew wide attention on social media.

While many commentators were touched by the mother’s efforts to save her child, others were quick to question why the shopping mall allowed the escalator in question to operate.

Xiang’s husband, Zhang Wei, who was behind his wife and son, said all appeared normal when the mother and son boarded the escalator, Zhang’s uncle told news portal Thepaper.cn.

Zhang Wei, husband of victim Xiang Liujuan, says all appeared fine when she stepped onto the escalator. Photo: SCMP Pictures

“When they were halfway from the sixth floor to the seventh floor, two assistants at the top of the escalator started to tell them that “the footplate of the escalator is broken”, the uncle said.

Footage of the horror, caught by a surveillance camera at the Jingzhou mall, shows Xiang holding her son as she prepares to get off the escalator when a footplate collapses under her feet.

Stuck in the hole and with only her upper body above the structure, she pushed her son towards a shop assistant standing near the top of the escalator.

Xiang was dragged beneath the floor a few seconds later after another shop assistant tried to grab her arm but failed.

“Why didn’t the mall immediately shut down the escalator when they knew it had problems? Why was there no warning sign or staffer at the entrance [of the escalator]?” a Weibo user wrote.

Other commentators noted that none of the three shop assistants tried to press the emergency button to stop the escalator after Xiang was trapped.

Emergency personal at the Jingzhou mall investigate while shoppers crowd around. Photo: SCMP Pictures

It took rescuers nearly four hours to retrieve Xiang’s body.

Last night, the shopping mall had yet to make a formal statement about the incident. Repeated calls to the company went unanswered. An unnamed source told the Wuhan Evening News that the incident was probably caused by workers failing to tighten footplate screws during maintenance.

Chen Guanxin, head of the Jingzhou Work Safety Administration, said last night that workers at the mall found that the escalator’s footplate had worked loose five minutes before the incident, Xinhua reported. The cause was being investigated.

Charles Wong Kai-hon, an expert on lift and escalator safety with the Vocational Training Council in Hong Kong, said the design of the escalator was questionable if it needed screws to fasten the footplate. “Using screws is not a reliable or safe design. The cover of the machine space should be held stable. It should not be able to rotate as happened in the video,” Wong said.

Twelve people were injured last year after an escalator on the Shanghai subway suddenly reversed direction.

Microsoft · Jul 28, 2015

knn oredi noe foot plate broken still dun turn off de escator...but in sinkieland tis r talent...n pappies import em in millions... :biggrin:

Froggy · Jul 28, 2015

Re: CCTV catches escalator swallow toddler’s mother

laksaboy said:
In other news I see some China-brand escalators installed at certain malls and buildings.

Go check out the brand of our new Circle Line escalators

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