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1 dead, 6 injured in maintenance accident on Titlis cable car
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A lift employee has died and six were injured
in an accident while maintaining the Titlis cable car in Switzerland.
"The gondola lift was closed to tourist traffic at the time of the accident and there were also no gondolas on the rope, as reported by the cantonal police Obwald. When employees of the Bergbahnen Engelberg-Titlis were working on the Gerschnialp on the cable lift of the gondola lift on Wednesday morning, a temporary bracing loosened in the rope splice area of the hoist rope, whereupon the workers were hit by the conveyor and the rescue rope."
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How dreadful - sound like an elementary health and safety failure.
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pam w wrote:
How dreadful - sound like an elementary health and safety failure.
Wouldn't be quick to judge - for all the bells and whistles lift systems essentially boil down to big bits of wire joined together with gravity and momentum not necessarily working in your favour when working at height. Suspect it's not possible to entirely de-risk and experienced lift engineers know it
Copper took some stick for this but there's a reason for testing phases
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/26/copper-mountain-gondola-crash/
Nasty way to go though and survivors might have fairly life changing consequences.
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I'm with Pam here. A century ago annual deaths of UK railway workers was in the hundreds, with tens of thousands being injured annually. Recent figures here:
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/how-we-work/performance/safety-performance/workforce-safety/
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Ouch.
Looks like amateur construction workers.
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