The Danger in Elevators

With the advent of advanced engineering, almost all if not all of the establishments and buildings being built and even those renovated have elevators ranging from the fastest to the most elaborately designed. With the end goal of making the travel from one floor to another cut in seconds, to save on time and energy in going up and down stair casings, and in preventing any injury that may be dealt by the use of creepy halls, elevators have been invented, designed, and improved.

Indeed elevators have been essential to the working lives of every employee, particularly those whose office spaces are located on the high floors of a skyscraper. It has made their journey to their work place less tedious and taxing. Yet despite this seeming importance of elevators to the employee’s daily working life, we still hear of news were elevators, which are malfunctioning, or those that do not have necessary precautions for the safety of persons or property that it actually commutes or transports bring about injuries.

One glaring and common example of elevator injuries is those who are actually trapped on the elevator shaft because of a malfunction in the control system or the electronic system of the building. More often than not those that are trapped in the elevator stay their for an hour or so, making them lose important time from work, and worse if the person trapped has fears on enclosed places then he or she would have experienced drastic mental and physical condition for an hour of stay there.

Another example of an injury resulting from an elevator malfunctioning is when the sensors of the elevators are not in any way working. This happens particularly when the elevator opens welcoming people to enter its cabin. The innocent passenger believing that he or she has ample time to enter the elevator before it closes has his one foot in already just to learn that the elevator closes and have his other foot locked between closing doors. This happens not only to body parts but to properties as well. Some important equipment may be locked and destroyed because of the non-efficient functioning of the sensors of the elevator.

Transport from one floor to another has indeed improved. Such advance in engineering and building design is much welcomed. But as they say with advance in technology a part of human life may be sacrificed because of too much dependence thereof. We have nothing against elevators, actually, it is a good invention, it’s just those negligent owners of establishments who despite of having defective elevators still pen them for use, and not give them ample repair. Thus, they should be penalized.