Elevator Safety Test

Submitted by Larry Bailey, CSP, REM

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This story moved over the UPI wire a year or so ago:

"Ashington, England-Safety engineers checking the emergency braking system on

a 480 foot mine-shaft-elevator said they had no idea two miners were trapped

inside during the bouncing tests.

"I never want to get back into a pit cage as long as I live", said Mark

Hetherington, who was bounced up and down inside the elevator for two hours.

"The elevator was raised to the surface and then sent into a free fall four

times to test the braking system before safety engineers realized the two men

were inside."

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