A man in Shenzhen, China, was hospitalized after a defective elevator flung him into the ceiling and left him trapped for hours.
The man boarded the elevator on the 10 floor August 12, and intended to ride it to the ground floor. After the man got on, it suddenly shot upward to an an unknown floor, where the doors opened, but the elevator kept moving.
The man quickly backed up against the wall, and around the 30th floor, the lift jerked hard, causing him to forcefully hit the ceiling.
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The man collapsed on the elevator floor, where he waited three hours for emergency medical assistance, reported sznews.com, a Shenzhen-based news agency. He sustained a femoral neck fracture, and doctors reported he will need a full joint replacement.
This is not the first accident to occur in this particular apartment elevator.
A pregnant woman previously got trapped inside, and the lack of oxygen caused health problems that required hospitalization, according to sznews.com. This building has five elevators — all of them reportedly have serious defects. Officials actually banned their usage, but the building managers decided to turn them back on.
China has more elevators than any other country in the world. It also has the world’s largest population, and the strain of large crowds cuts elevators’ life spans significantly.
A Chinese nurse was beheaded by an elevator in front of her child in 2013. A shocking video showed a young Chinese boy being crushed as an elevator moved between floors in 2014. And another woman was killed when she was sucked into an escalator when the floor collapsed in 2015.
China had a total of 4 million elevators and escalators in operation in 2015, and a surprising 101,000 elevators were deemed unfit for civilian use by the Quality Control Department, Xinhua News Agency reported. That year, 46 Chinese people were killed in elevator and escalator accidents.
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