Chinese escalator’s floor collapses weeks after man’s foot amputated after accident on another of firm’s machines: report
The floor of an escalator partially collapsed at a subway station in Shanghai only weeks after a cleaner in the city had a foot amputated after it got trapped in a moving stairway made by the same manufacturer.
A section of flooring at the top of the escalator at Hongkou Football Stadium station suddenly reared up on Tuesday, leaving an exposed hole, the Paper.cn reported.
The escalator stopped when it malfunctioned and nobody was injured in the incident, the article said.
The escalator was made by Shanghai Mitsubishi, according to the article.
One of the firm’s machines was involved in the accident earlier this month when a 35-year-old cleaner got his foot trapped while he was cleaning the escalator at a shopping mall in Shanghai.
It became stuck in the section where the stairs meet the floor plate.