19 Die Horribly in Elevator Plunge – China
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 15, 2012 01:18 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Buildings, China, Guro, Hubei, Made in China
19 have died in a horrific accident as their elevator plunged 30 storeys down a residential skyscraper, killing everyone on board.
The construction elevator was ferrying workers up and down the side of a residential high rise being built in Hubei, when it fell from the 30th storey to the ground below, killing all 19 workers on board.
The local authorities say they are investigating the cause of the accident, and have ordered a wave of safety inspections and construction suspensions.
It has already emerged that the elevator’s annual safety inspection was apparently already 3 months overdue:
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you mean.. it didn't explode?..
It fell before it had a chance...
maybe some of the internal workings of the elevator did explode, but we simply do not know yet.
in any case its still the same china quality piece of uncanny death
damn it I cant stop laughing! "you mean.. it didn't explode?.." you got me there Kyubey
The elevator didn't explode, but something else did: safety regulations went KABLOOEY!
Wow you people sure are running that joke in the ground.
Who said it was a joke? I was surprised too.
The front page is not a lot different then /b/.
Is it still considered a joke if san-plexites have no sense of humor?
I want to see who will be the crazy buying an apartment in this place, will have lost souls falling for eternity.
Imagine taking an elevator alone at night in this building ..
In africa people is sacrificed in black magic ritual to bring the building prosper and money .. with 19 dead ..
At least one cursed treasure!
Huge. Success.
19 workers in one elevator...wasn't that more than enough cause?
its all working class male on board so probable an average of 80kg per person meaning 19 people would weigh more than 1.5 tons
im pretty sure if its a normal construction elevator maybe it can hold pretty well but considering its China...
I don't think normal construction elevator can hold 1.5 ton without being stressful on the wires. It's pretty sad to see this, but maybe they'll focus on the quality on the constructions rather than the quantity now?
quality dont make money...
quality wasn't make money...it makes good money
@1:58 nope... example. say a mobile phone company. They can make water proof phones or not water proof phones, the technology is there, but they don't. Why? 1) its cheaper to make 2) when people accidentally wet their phones, they will get a replacement, so more money to them. quality doesnt make good money, it makes ethical money.
Anonymous 03:32, that is why after time we start adding water damage to phones to covered 'incidences' in order to give them an impetus to use the astoundingly cheap methods of water-proofing on phones.
In NYC the mob used to control the construction elevators (maybe still do).
Plumbers electricians etc. are all separate union contractors. If you were a contractor and wanted to get your guys and equipment on the job site faster you had to pay the elevator operator and you got priority.Others had to wait.
The cost was already figured into the estimate and it's just the cost of doing business in the city.
They never had an accident like this though.
Any accidents like this in the city were non-union.
lols....poor quality plus overhyping plus retarded customers makes really good money, just look at apple
As much as I dislike apple, Anon 03:57, I would have to rate their quality as top notch. (At least for hardware)
Of course they can, normally they can at least hold 2.5 tons.
Even normal public elevators normally are rated for 800kg+.
Elevators normally have various security mechanisms, that would prevent the elevator from falling even if the wires tear. I've installed an elevator as part of an internship. An elevator falling should be even rarer than people being killed by falling coconuts.
But then again, we're talking about china here...
Construction elevators have different standards.
Construction elevators are still supposed to have 'brakes' in them to prevent these things from happening. You might fall down a floor or two but when the 'freefall brake' kicks in, it should stop the elevator.
Anonymous 02:45, that is a standard in the U.S. for ALL elevators, construction or not. They are supposed to have those 'brakes' to keep them from plunging like this.
My dad's a civil engineer and all his life he promised that he would never do high rise projects ever again after 1 trip using those construction elevators 15 years ago....... It depends on the country's standards. The Philippines here has among the worst construction standards for safety.
I live in a residential building and the elevators here hold 1500kg. Like an anon said, the normal elevators have breaks underneath them while construction ones don't because they are temporary but again depends on the company's quality as well as standards set by the country they are working on.
80 kg working class male?? lol you must be thinking about americans
True. Most of the people I worked with averaged little above 81 kilos, very little of it fat. Some of the most fit people I have seen in any country I've been to.
Not that any other countries know anything about it though.
You want a cheeseburger, american?
You want a cheeseburger, american?
Where are the burger?
02:25
Not man enough, weak chinks? Doubleposting like a bitch too HAHA
With extra bacon and special sauce, an extra large straw-berry shake and extra large fries. And the usual four $1 tacos please. Oh, and three packets of ranch. That's all, thank you.
lol angry americans incomin.
statistics don't lie. america is the fattest country on earth.
Check yourself it's mexico.
Purely number of people count also says china will surpass that soon LOL
Statistics don't say the truth either, because statistics make an assumption based on a small test lot.
this is chinese worker we talking about, they're at most 60-70kg
You might be surprised. Obesity danger in east asia passed danger level long time ago. In terms of number of people, there are more obese people in east asia than any other regions.
that's east asia. this is china.
china is not known for its obesity.
Right, it's known for obscenity.
Okay, lame joke aside, construction clothes and hand tools added together are pretty heavy too.
60~70kg is nowhere near obese weight, and furthermore not close to being a likely weight for a grown man with a nice amount of muscle mass--construction workers we're talking about, not history teachers.
Are u even live in east asia ? or even somewhere near asia ? the number of poor people in china is more than entire population of australia.
I can tell u malnutrition is common here, Obese people preaty rare one here. even amongst midle to upper class.
Unless the obese middle class work as construction worker. there is no such thing as obese construction worker. since they pay u less enough money to even buy 1 mcdonalds meal, let alone to upsize it.
"there are more obese people in east asia than any other regions"
LOL @idiot
Actually Xinghua News itself reports that over 60 million Chinese people are obese. This came in a report about the wealth/poverty gap, as it's more than twice the reported number of people living malnourished in abject poverty (reported as 24 million), with additional figures of 160 million sufferring from high blood pressure and 20 million with diabetes (these figures have overlap with the obesity statistic).
Out of 1.3 billion people this seems a miniscule number up until you realize 60 million is the entire population of France.
04:39
LOL @ idiot who can't do math. You have no idea when you say I never lived or was born in east asia. Purely in terms of absolute numbers, the obesity in east asia is easily the size of half the US population. Xinhua is about as credible source of facts as Tibet Free movement newspaper.
You better check some facts about obesity. Just look at that fat piece of pig on the other protest article's number 1 picture XD.
03:49
Never mind the fact that over 90% of people in east asia are chinese....fucktard.
So we have some pro chinese propaganda here . . . @03:59
can't find the like button
Cause it ain't there idiot
this time is elevator fell
R.I.P.
Apparently in China elevators don't have safety brakes.
For that type of temporary crane elevator? That's a good question.