Another Pattaya Lift Accident

[pcdodger]

PATTAYA: -- A group of schoolchildren and their teacher have been injured in a freak lift accident at a central Pattaya hotel on Thursday. The lift is thought to have plunged from the sixth floor of the building in unknown circumstances.

 

Pattaya, the 21st of October 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 8:30pm on Thursday, Lieutenant Colonel Phitak Nernsaeng (Pattaya Police Investigator) was notified by the Pattaya Memorial Hospital that a group of schoolchildren had been admitted suffering injuries resultant from a lift accident at the Sunbeam Hotel in Soi 8, central Pattaya.

 

Investigating the incident, a team of officers under the command of Colonel Nunthawut Suwanla-ong (Pattaya Police Superintendent) went to the scene.

 

On arrival at the Sunbeam Hotel, officers confronted Mr. Songwut Wongsiri [32], the guest relations service manager, who subsequently showed them to the lift at fault in the accident. The lift was marked out of order, while no external damage was immediately evident to officers.

 

Mr. Wongsiri explained that the lift, a maintenance lift, had suffered an unknown fault before falling and impacting with the ground, but not severely. He revealed that all the hotels lifts had been properly installed and regularly maintained in accordance with international standards. The injured had been transported to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital shortly after the accident.

 

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[GlynRhedyn]

Was reading that before lunch. At least it appears that nobody was seriously injured as a fall from 6 floors could be very nasty.

The Sunbeam is where I stayed on my first 3 visits to LOS going back 10 years.

Glyn.

[andy1]

a lift should never plunge to the bottom

there are safety devices to stop that from happening

but not on that one it would seem

[joekicker]

a lift should never plunge to the bottom

 

Yes.

 

And while I don't know what DID happen, I know for certain that this lift with the kids on it did not "plunge" six stories to the ground/bottom. That did NOT happen. Otherwise they'd still be scraping the body parts. There a lot of things that might have happened here, but for sure there is one thing that didn't happen.

 

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[Idefix]

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2010/10...-lift-accident/

http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/298...-pattaya-hotel/

"With two different versions of events to be investigated, Pattaya Police have asked the lift to be taken out of service for now."

[jacko]

Wasn't there an 'incident' of a lift 'freefalling' some months back too, in another Pattaya hotel?

There is perhaps some maintenance guy who needs retraining.......

[joekicker]

Wasn't there an 'incident' of a lift 'freefalling' some months back too, in another Pattaya hotel?

 

Yes, I remember that discussion. Again, no deaths despite all the plunging going on. Most of the people needed a laundry, apparently.

 

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[Malakor]

Elevator safety:

 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport...t/elevator4.htm