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Broken portion of an escalator step injures worker

23 December 2017

Persona

Asset Owner

Contractor

Technologies

Elevating Devices

Reference number

II-639118-2018

Location: Vancouver
Incident overview: It was reported to Technical Safety BC that a maintenance worker was injured by an escalator. A broken portion of an escalator step allowed the worker's finger to get caught between the moving damaged section of step and the bottom of the escalator comb plate.

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