[…] elevators, by activity, 1992-2009 The following Figure 4 is the authors’ attempt to develop the taxonomy from the 110 people described in Tables 3 and 4 who died installing and repairing elevators between 1992 and 2009. It is necessary to show meaningful patterns with associated describers. This type of analysis is the starting point. […]
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A mother in Mexico plunged to her death when an elevator door opened on an empty shaft, Latin Post reports. The woman reportedly attempted to take the elevator at a building in Portal Corregidora, at the center of Moroleón in Guanajuato state, at around 9 a.m. on February 6. The report said the woman did…
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A lift technician fell to his death while working on a lift at a shopping mall on January 28 in Cheras, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, TheStar reports. The victim was found lying on the ground in the second-floor basement, inside the elevator shaft. Cheras Officials report that CCTV footage shows the 32-year-old victim falling after…
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[…] seven years. The historic landmark opened to the public as a museum in 1963, two years after the passing of the former first lady, Edith. Before she died, she gave the house – and its elevator – to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to serve as a monument to President Wilson. Before COVID, […]
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[…] from the approved patent. Unfortunately, Elisha Otis had only a few months to celebrate the patenting of his safety device. In early April, he contracted diphtheria and died on April 8, 1861, at the age of 49. Otis’ safety device and its 1854 exhibition is often heralded as the event that launched the modern […]
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[…] Jersey Elevator (SJE), a Blackwood, New Jersey-based elevator company, is supporting groups that help with drug abuse prevention and with families of New Jersey police officers who died in the line of duty, the company announced in December. Law Enforcement Against Drugs (L.E.A.D) works within community schools to provide anti-drugs and anti-violence education for […]
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[…] Council’s cabinet member for planning and public protection, Councillor Christopher Bithell, said: “This is a tragic case where an employee was very seriously injured and could have died as a result of their employer’s negligence. This prosecution sends a clear message about how seriously Flintshire County Council takes these matters.” The question for us […]
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[…] is a wind turbine at every windy place. Foods that consume a high level of resources, like animal protein and dairy products, are completely removed from our diets. Plant-based replacements are so good that most of us do not look for meat and dairy products. Most of the children do not even believe we […]
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“Shock due to multiple injuries” was the cause of death for a 7-year-old girl who fell down an elevator shaft in the Sion neighborhood of Mumbai, India, on November 5, Mid-Day reports. The child was playing hide-and-seek with her friends on the fourth floor of a building when she ran to the front door of an elevator.…
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Leopoldo Celaya, retired after a long career as a machinist in the elevator industry, died peacefully at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 28. He was 80 years old. Celaya was born January 4, 1941, in Oquitoa, Sonora, Mexico, the youngest of 12 children, and raised in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. He came […]
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