How Elevator Accidents Happen
Elevator accidents are usually caused by maintenance issues, defective elevator parts, or elevator owner negligence. A large number of elevator accidents take place on construction sites and involve on-the-job workers who are either working on elevators or taking elevators to job sites. Another significant percentage of elevator accidents involves elevator repairmen and doormen.
Elevator injuries may take place due to:
- Elevator door malfunctions
- Sudden elevator stops, drops, and landings
- Elevator floor shifts
- Elevator entrapment
- Elevator shaft falls
- Elevator crush injuries
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$122,500 $122k for Young Man Involved in a Head-on Collision
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Settlement for Man in Rear-End Collision
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$235,000 $235k for Officer Who Was Struck While Directing Traffic
For Officer Who Was Struck While Directing Traffic
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$3,000,000 $3 Million Leg Injury Case Involving Tractor Trailer on I-75
Leg Injury Case Involving Tractor Trailer on I-75
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$100,000 $100k for Woman Involved in Rear-End Collision With Neck Injury
For Woman Involved in Rear-End Collision With Neck Injury
How Escalator Accidents Happen
While many people know that elevators can be dangerous, fewer know that each year escalators cause serious injury and death, especially among young children. In fact, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH), about 10,000 escalator accidents necessitate a trip to the emergency room each year in the United States alone.
Escalator accidents may take place due to:
- Escalator falls
- Escalator malfunctions
- Lack of escalator warnings
- Escalator collapse
- Escalator entrapment – when a piece of clothing or body part becomes trapped in an escalator
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At Van Sant Law, we treat your injury case with the seriousness, assertiveness, and thorough attention that it deserves. The law requires that elevators and escalators are inspected and serviced regularly and that elevator and escalator operators keep their passengers and employees reasonably safe. If these precautions, rules, and regulations are not followed, property owners, inspection companies, service companies, maintenance companies, or even manufacturers may be found liable for an accident.
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Van Sant Law has recovered millions in compensation for our clients’ benefit.
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Who Is to Blame for Elevator & Escalator Accidents?
In order to collect compensation for an elevator or escalator injury in Georgia, you must prove that another party was at fault for your accident. While investigating your accident, our elevator injury attorneys will ask the following questions:
- Was the escalator or elevator properly maintained, serviced, and inspected?
- If the escalator or elevator was being repaired at the time of the accident, were warning signs present and visible?
- Did the elevator or escalator have a history of malfunctions or accidents?
- Was the elevator or escalator in any way in violation of city safety and building codes?
- Was the owner of the elevator or escalator aware of past problems?
- Should the elevator or escalator accident have been prevented?
Elevator and escalator accidents occur in many forms. Maintenance workers may fall into a shaft, be caught between moving parts, or be struck by elevators or counterweights.
Passengers might fall into the shaft or the elevator they are in may fall. Clothing or body parts may become caught in between moving mechanisms of an elevator or escalator. Alternatively, certain conditions, such as a dangerously wet floor, may contribute to a simple slip and fall accident. In all of these cases, negligence may be a significant factor and a personal injury lawsuit may be appropriate.
If you’ve been Injured in an accident you should speak with an experienced personal injury attorney as soon as possible. Please contact us online or call our office directly at (800) 234-9556 to schedule your free consultation.
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