Horrible Escalator-Related Deaths

In late June 2015, a plate went missing from the top of an escalator in an Anliang department store.Xiang Liujuan saw the missing plate at the top of an escalator.The missing plate was at the top of an escalator in an Anliang department store.This happened in Jingzhou, Hubei province, China.She pushed her son to safety, but Liujaun fell through the hole under the escalator.Liujaun fell through the hole and underneath the escalator.The escalator crushed her to death.

Only a few months later, a different incident occurred.Xiang Liujuan saved her son from a broken escalator in October 2015. Another little boy in Chongqing, China, was caught between the escalator steps and the handrail.A little boy was caught between the escalator steps and the handrail.This happened at a Hongqihegou metro station.The location was the Hongqihegou metro station.The escalator dragged him into the mechanism.

China saw a plague of escalator deaths from 2015 to 2016. On January 10, 2016, at a Kunming location in Yunnan Province, China, an accident occurred.The accident happened in Kunming, Yunnan Province.The accident happened in Yunnan Province.A three-year-old named Ximei was in a south China shopping mall.The child was named Ximei.Ximei fell from the rail of a fourth-floor escalator.She played without supervision. Her grandmother, who owned a booth in the shopping center, was there but did not watch Ximei fall.

A man from Charlotte, North Carolina, died inside the Harrah's Casino in New Orleans, Louisiana.Harrah's Casino in New Orleans, Louisiana, experienced an incident on April 7, 2016, afterHe attempted to slide down the handrail of an escalator.James Edward Darst was in town for a conference. The man attempted to slide down the escalator.James Edward Darst was in town for a conference. No one knew if Darst was drunk when he tried to slide down the rail.

In December 2015, a 54-year-old man was in Kazan, Russia.The man was in the Russian city of Kazan.He fell to his death after losing balance on a shopping mall escalator.He fell just after boarding the unit. He plummeted 40 feet to the floor below and landed on top of another man, who was in his seventies. The man who fell died, but the 74-year-old he landed on walked away unharmed.

In Beijing, on July 5, 2011, a subway escalator malfunctioned.The subway escalator malfunctioned.The mechanism suddenly moved in reverse. This caused a pile-up, crushing one 13-year-old boy and injuring 27 others. An eyewitness saw blood streak the escalator steps for 30 feet.

A Seattle man died in a bus terminal in April 2013.His shirt got entangled in the mechanism toward the bottom of the unit.An open bottle of brandy was on his person. CCTV showed the man moving slowly before boarding, suggesting he might have been intoxicated. The man lost balance, lodging his shirt in the escalator's motors.

At the Metreon shopping center in San Francisco, California, a 15-year-old boy was arrested on November 11, 2007, for shooting another teen, Michael Price.Price refused to walk down an escalator.Price preferred to ride the steps to the bottom.

A 48-year-old woman died in a Montreal metro station escalator in January 2014.The escalator's teeth snagged her scarf.She bent to untangle her scarf. The mechanism clamped her hair. Her scarf then cinched around her neck, strangling her to death.

A woman died on a escalator.The New York Telephone Company escalator gave way to a woman.The woman rode the escalator to work in September 1987. Complaints about the escalator built up before her death. In 1982, 13 people were injured in an accident with that unit. As the woman rode up, the step she stood on collapsed under her feet, pulling her into the mechanism below.