Sri Lankan Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake said in February he planned to introduce a law requiring all the country’s elevators to be registered and regulated, the Daily Mirror reported. The move came on the heels of a 24-year-old man dying in an elevator accident in Colombo in late December 2018 and, later, members of Parliament becoming…
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Brexit May Pose Difficulties for Manufacturers Many types of products may only be marketed within the European Economic Area (EEA) if they are provided with a CE mark, but with the deadline approaching for the U.K.’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) — commonly referred to as “Brexit” — questions have arisen about what the…
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[…] heard throughout the building, and the operator of the elevator stopped the car immediately. . . . Parkhurst was unconscious when removed from the elevator shaft and died without being revived.” The account implies that the shaft doors automatically opened when the car stopped at a given floor and that the doors apparently failed […]
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[…] sheet 2, energy consumption of elevator components, was published. Over the past 10 years, energy consumption of elevators has dramatically declined. Meermann, initiator of the VDI 4707, died last December. Changes in Elevator Technology Over the Past 50 Years Many elevator components have changed in this time, as noted in Table 1. *“Stop lost […]
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[…] to existing code. In summer 2016, Moules and an inmate at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility got into a scuffle outside an elevator when the doors broke away and they fell 59 ft. down the shaft. Both men died. Bill-signing ceremony attendees included Moules’ mother, coworkers and members of the International Union of Elevator Constructors.
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[…] In the end, a group of 200 lift accidents worldwide for which the cause of the accident was clear enough was investigated. In this group, 44 people died, and 64 people were badly injured. The following statistics and conclusions could be drawn from this. Most major accidents (20%) were due to maintenance. Crushing came […]
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[…] five-story building on the northeast corner of Broome Street and Broadway, which belonged to E V Haughwout & Co., a dealer in china and glassware. Sadly, Otis died in 1861 owning a factory worth not more than US$5,000 and employing only eight or 10 men. Development of Safety Gear Design According to Inglis, the […]
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[…] not generally in favor, as there was a huge skepticism about the safety of users, mainly due to a number of well-documented disasters, in which people had died while using lifts during building fires. Most of the issues discussed were technical ones and included machine failure, reliability of power supplies, lifts passing through fire […]
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[…] joints (not to mention the danger of falling down the stairs and hurting yourself). According to a report by the National Safety Council, in 2013, 2,233 Americans died “falling on and from stairs and steps,” about a hundred times more people than those killed in elevator accidents. He is a little skeptical of the […]
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[…] by firefighters, emergency workers and qualified elevator personnel. Kugel acknowledged the contribution of Manny Duren, who initiated and pursued the development of the standard but who, unfortunately, died before the standard was completed. Risk Assessment and Performance-Based Codes Your author was invited to address the convention on Risk Assessment Methodology and trends in worldwide […]
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