Shanghai Moving Walk Incident Results in Serious Injuries

A woman in China was seriously injured and may require an amputation after she got stuck in a moving walk at a supermarket in Shanghai, the Independent reports. The woman fell feet-first into the moving walk after the malfunction of the system that automatically fixes plates, or pedals, in place along with the failure of the automatic stop mechanism, and she remained trapped for half an hour until engineers could free her. An investigation was launched, and all teams involved in the functioning of the moving walk were being questioned following the incident. The Shanghai government said more than 100 technical issues were found during an unrelated month-long investigation by the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Supervision into more than 4,000 escalators and moving walks.