ESCALATOR FAIL: Elderly men in Poland try to run up an escalator

Aaaw. Poor things. They made it - safely, and that's the important thing. We think we'd all try to run up that escalator too if we heard 'free burger' announced. We wonder if the burger was worth it?...

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Man's Leg Swallowed By Another ESCALATOR Incident In China

The guy who is a cleaner at the mall, survived when his foot got caught in the escalator. His leg however, had to later be amputated...

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This makes it the 2nd major escalator incident in less than a week after posting that other sad and disturbing video the mother who died in the escalator disaster.

China: Mother's Final Moments Captured After Saving Son From Escalator Disaster

Warning: Disturbing Images

After reaching the top of an escalator, 30-year-old Xiang Liujuan was killed after she fell through a gap that suddenly opened up and swallowed her at a department store in Jingzhou city, Hubei province in China. 

She was with her two-year-old son at the time but she managed to push her son up to safety with the aide of shopping assistants and surveillance footage captured the entire moments on camera. 

The young boy looked on as his mother was tragically pulled into the machinery. Xiang was reportedly shopping at the mall with her husband at the time, but he had not yet made it to the elevator on the fifth floor.

Damaged escalator after the incident | Source

The woman’s family wants to spread awareness of this tragedy and to the mall’s escalator safety by publicizing this story.

“Facing the loss of a lively human being, our whole family is shocked and unable to react,” her sister-in-law wrote in a blog post. “We don’t know how to save all the proof about my brother’s wife’s suffering, so what we can do is to count on the media to record what happened.”

Incidentally, there have been other escalator malfunctions in China in the last few years:

• Escalator glitch injures 13 at Jing’an Metro,
• Teenager killed in Beijing escalator accident where at least 28 were injured

Plus two other more recent incidences in shopping malls according to CNN:

• In southwestern Guangxi province, a toddler’s left hand and arm were caught in a gap of an escalator on Monday after he tripped and fell at the bottom, firefighters told local media. He suffered multiple trauma, including a fractured arm, and was hospitalized.
• In Beijing, a boy’s foot was stuck in an escalator at a shopping mall on Sunday, according to People’s Daily. He was rescued by firefighters within half an hour and appeared only slightly injured, witnesses told the newspaper.

After taking four hours to rescue Xiang, she was pronounced dead. Loose screws on the footplate were allegedly unsecured and staff found out minutes before the disaster that the escalator was malfunctioning yet no actions were taken to examine it  – or stop it entirely.


Source(s): shanghaiist | buzzfeed | cnn