Ouch

[wolf63]

This Is the stuff of nightmares and horror stories

http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/21/woman-chopped-in-half-in-hospital-lift-shortly-after-giving-birth-6866239/

[albaqwerty]

words fail me.
Awful.

[murraymints]

OMG !!

[waterboatman]

Horrendous!

[mikey4444]

I wished I hadn't clicked on that clip now....bloody awful.

[wolf63]

I thought that stuff like that wasn't suppose to happen. Poor family :-(

[mikey4444]

Apparently the lift was inspected recently, so this looks like human error to me.

[wolf63]

But the fact that the lift is able to do this is, to me, the scary bit.

I am off back to bed for a cat nap or three.

[ummmm]

How can it be human error?

The lift doors opened and closed twice before she was pushed out when it started going up and he didn't have time to pull her back in. It's a fault with the lift.

I just hope she still had enough drugs in her system to make her suffering as minimal as could be.

The poor lady, her poor children, and the poor porter who witnessed it. Stuff of nightmares.

[mikey4444]

Ummm....not an error with the operator, but as the lift had only been inspected in August 12th, then its likely that someone must be to blame for not noticing that a fault had developed allowing this to happen.

In fact, as the lift was only inspected last week, I suspect that the inspection itself must be in some way to blame.

Lifts are not supposed to move if the doors are open.

[youngmafbog]

Terrible thing to happen.

As to the cause we shall have to wait on the investigation. When I worked in a warehouse many years ago there was often a problem getting the meat in the lift. It was possible to override the door mechanism with a piece of cardboard and the was done regularly. It was also done once when the door mechanism played up. So at the moment it could be anything.

[ummmm]

Mikey...Like a broke down car. We can't always find the fault before they happen.

[Mamyalynne]

What horror, her poor family.

[Lie-in King]

Good grief, how awful :-(

[mikey4444]

Ummm...its the job of the lift Inspector to do just that.

But I still think its significant that this terrible tragedy should happen so soon after an Inspection.