At my university the elevators are also pretty craptacular, but I haven't really heard any cases where someone dieds from an elevator accident. All i heard when I stayed on campus was how they kind broke down.
Wow, that is really sad 
. I guess I am lucky because here at Milwaukee our dorms are 26 floors for each of the buildings. So they really have to have them maintained, otherwise that could be a major problem if people were stuck.
But I go to other dorms in the UW system and they are just crap. I won't even go into the elevators at my friends dorms in UW Madison, cause I hear people get stuck in them all the time.
. I guess I am lucky because here at Milwaukee our dorms are 26 floors for each of the buildings. So they really have to have them maintained, otherwise that could be a major problem if people were stuck.But I go to other dorms in the UW system and they are just crap. I won't even go into the elevators at my friends dorms in UW Madison, cause I hear people get stuck in them all the time.
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to give him credit.. i haven't been following the news lately, and hadn't even looked online. if not for my RA, my next source was likely going to be facebook, where I stumbled upon a group about the death and the elevators. that was yesterday (sunday).
Each one of the kids should be sued, not the School:
10-23-2006 Elevator overloaded before accident
Twenty-four people had crowded onto a dormitory elevator before it pinned and killed an Ohio State University freshman, exceeding its weight capacity by as much as 1,100 pounds, a fire official said Monday.
He said the elevator had a capacity of 2,500 pounds. "If you take the average freshman college kid, you'd probably average their weight somewhere between 140 and 150 (pounds).
Andrew Polakowski was the last person to enter the elevator on Stradley Hall's third floor when it began to descend with the doors open, campus police said.
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He shouldn't have gotten in and at least 8 kids should've been smart enough to get off.
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
That sucks
Important lesson - don't go past open doors when there is a malfunction.
That's why there is a trap door above the Elevator for Emergency escape access.
as true as that is, using the emergency escape is really only meant in case there is like, a fire or you've been stuck for a VERY long time. The ones in these elevators are painted over, so one would probably have to kick it very hard, which would be difficult in of itself. plus, being stuck for not even an hour, to me, wouldn't warrant climbing out through that, becuase then you introduce the new game of, what the hell do you do next?
thus why its for emergencies, where someone is probably rescuing you through that trap-door anyway.
If its painted over.. thats a cause for concern too and they should fix that.
So, the elevator started going down and he decided to leave while it was moving? Or was it stationary and the doors were open and he just tried to leave like normal, and the elevator freaked out and smacked him in the head?
If it's the former then that's a pretty dumb thing to do in an elevator, he must have been drunk or showing off or something. Terrible way to die either way.
If it's the former then that's a pretty dumb thing to do in an elevator, he must have been drunk or showing off or something. Terrible way to die either way.
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what was said to have happened, at least to my understanding, was that it started to drop, not descend in the normal motion of an elevator.
so, he may have freaked and tried to get out. the doors stayed open according to all reports, and he got pinned between the floor of the 3rd floor and the top of the elevator, and slowly suffocated, he was not crushed, which backs up the idea that it was just slowly dropping and not actually being moved. if it was being moved its likely it would have thoroughly crushed and destroyed his chest, not just suffocate.
it sucks, and thats the thing the tests don't show. dorm elevators, on friday nights, are terribly abused. more people than should be in there, not to mention people will jump and whatnot.
if there was alcohol or not involved, i can't see that being to blame. i can say, under adrenaline, I'd likely try and get out if the elevator was starting to drop, at least, depending upon the speed of the drop and if there was a lot of room. mere feet at the top to where i have to waste time climbing and then pulling myself out, I dunno. i can't judge since I wasn't there, but under normal circumstances I'd try and exit the elevator in almost all situations. im not prepared to die in an elevator.
but yea, i agree with dmcowen674, there aren't much grounds for a lawsuit, simply because it was kids being stupid, and he took two risks, (1) entering an overloaded elevator, (2) trying to exit an elevator that had begun descending, either through normal mechanical processes, or by stress from weight.
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studying most of the weekend :0
abstract algebra midterm today.
edit: just to spread some rumor around
I was in record store today and girl was talking about it...apparantly her friend is the r.a.? or works in stradley. Anyway, apparantly the kid is claustrophobic (sp) and that is why he tried to climb out.
/rumor
Yeah my friend almost got his hand cut off when an elevator at Univ of Miami pinned it in.
Stupid universities with their piss-poor student housing.
Stupid universities with their piss-poor student housing.
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think of the 20 + people in the elevator watching him pinned to the ceiling kicing and thrashing for his live and then just stop moving, must suck to be them.
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