The technician is understood to be receiving treatment in
the trauma centre of a local hospital
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Shocking footage has shown the moment an engineer had to be
rescued after becoming trapped in an escalator
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The workman, who was repairing the device in Beibei District
of Chongqing in south-west China, was accidently sucked into the escalator
after it “suddenly became operational”.
Video footage of the incident shows the man’s body under the
outdoor contraption, which was quickly halted to prevent him being crushed.
Local firefighters were called to the scene and managed to
set the man free as hundreds of horrified shoppers looked on, theMailOnline
reports.
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Hundreds of shoppers looked on as the man was pulled out of
the escalator
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Arriving firefighters managed to prise his body out of the
device and rush him to hospital
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The technician, who has not been named in reports, is understood to be receiving treatment in the trauma centre of a local hospital. His condition is unknown.
Investigators are reportedly determining the cause of the
accident.
The incident follows a slew of accidents involving
escalators in the country, which have prompted nationwide safety concerns.
Last year, a 31-year-old mother, Xiang Liujuan, died after
she fell into the machinery of an escalator
while in her local shopping centre in Jingzhou when a panal at the top
of escalator became loose.
The incident was caught on camera, which showed her pushing
her child to safety as she was dragged to her death igniting outrage around the
world.
Two months later a four-year-old boy was also killed by an
escalator after his hand became stuck in its handrail.
Although deaths on escalators are extremely rare, China's
breakneck economic development and sometimes cavalier attitude toward safety,
quality control and maintenance have led to frequent industrial accidents.
An estimated 37 people were killed in China in escalator accidents in 2014, according to the South China Morning Post. The country has almost 3.6 million registered escalators in total.
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