- Elevators are 20x safer than escalators. There are 20x more elevators than escalators, only 1/3 more accidents.
- Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the US. There are 26 car deaths every 5 hours!
- Most deaths are elevator technnicians.
- Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.
- The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.
- Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.
- The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that, a myth. You can’t jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn’t know when to jump.
- Elevators are statistically the safest way to travel.
- Maximum altitude that one cable hoisted elevator can achieve is 1700 feet.
- Every elevator is supported by multiple cables and each of those cables can safely carry entire elevator and its passengers.
- Close Door button will not make door close faster.
- The only known occurrence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.
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