Wish people did this to TikTokers more
I cant even tell what happened in this one. How did his head get caught? Leaning back?
My understanding: what looks like a cage at the rear of the elevator is actually a chase of pipes
behind the shaft. Like you said he leans back and his head winds up between the pipes. The ceiling of the chase is static as the carriage ascends and catches him like a shearing action. Elevators are horrifying if you're not careful.
There's a video I got to see that unfortunately I am also nearly certain will never see the light of day. It's actually why I was perusing the "death by elevator" genre. I had just arrived on a job site with an entirely Asian engineering department and a bank of a dozen high speed elevators and a couple dozen more about the facility. The specific personnel handling elevator maintenance were mainland Chinese. Now there's the typical cavalier attitude you see on isolated, multinational sites, with one exception.
Something happened with the elevators and management was directly micromanaging safety moving forward. Between gossip in the smoke pit and having to see
everyone's files/emails as part of my job I gather what happened and some of the Eastern European bros in Electrical showed me the video, in greentext syle:
> Be bugman elevator "engineer"
> Never heard of lock-out, tag-out in my life. Hard hat has never left my locker. Harness? I'm not some faggot.
> Radio in broken tagalog to the filipino bug man to shut down shaft I need to work on
> Pinoy's like "lol wut?"
> Carriage bound for three decks below mine crashes into me at full fucking speed
> BugSplatter.gif
> Literally bisected at the waist.
> Legs traumatize personnel waiting near the elevator bank
> Torso/head get punted to the bottom of the shaft
> My buddies have to go fish it out
> Buddies now know about lock-out, tag-out. Still try to avoid doing it if at all able.