Horrifying Escalator Accident: Video Shows Chinese Mall Worker’s Foot Trapped In Escalator Just Days After Mother Is Sucked Into Machinery In Front Of Son


A Chinese mall worker is forced to have a part of his leg amputated after a tragic escalator accident that took place on Saturday at Longemont Shopping Mall in Shanghai’s Changning district, according to NY Daily News.

The 35-year-old shopping mall janitor, who is only being identified as Zhang, was seen in a surveillance footage cleaning the escalator steps with a mop, but horror strikes moments later.

The inaudible footage shows the Chinese janitor’s leg caught in the escalator and he said he was able to feel it shaking, “but the escalator did not stop and I had to press the emergency button.”

An emergency unit later arrived at the scene and it took 20 minutes to free Zhang, and he was rushed to a local hospital. Doctors say that his foot was severely damaged after the escalator accident; therefore, they “had to amputate the foot to avoid the injuries from deteriorating,” according to a report.

The incident comes just days after a 30-year-old woman, Xiang Liujuan, of Jingzhou died after the footplate at the top of the escalator came lose, causing the woman to fall into the machinery. Liujuan and her 2-year-old son were on the escalator together, but she was able to push him to safety before falling to her death.

“When they were halfway from the sixth to the seventh floor, two assistants at the top of the escalator started to tell them that ‘the footplate of the escalator is broken,'” said Liujuan’s uncle.

In the footage, it shows two workers at the top of the escalator warning the mother about the floorplates. The mother picks up her son, attempting to carefully walk over the floorplate, but it falls and sucks her down. It was later uncovered that the shopping mall knew the floorplates were broken as workers made several attempts to alert maintenance, but they refused to shut it down.

After the tragic escalator accident that caused Zhang’s foot to be amputated, the Chinese mall released a statement saying that he “improperly” stepped onto the escalator and “the brush of the mop was trapped inside the gap in the stairs, which caused cracks in the comb plate.”

[Image via YouTube Screen Capture]

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