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2018 Rome Escalator Accident

• freeqaz 5y ago
  Semi-NSFW video of this incident here: https://youtu.be/KaGNZi36znA https://youtu.be/KaGNZi36znA How do escalators even fail like this? This really makes me think through the engineering challenges that we face when designing critical infrastructure.
  • jaclaz 5y ago
    >How do escalators even fail like this? In the specific case it is a combination of lack of maintenance combined with bad maintenance. It seems like the firm that had the contract for the maintenance was cutting a few corners (removing or disabling existing safeties) to reduce "false alarms" and having a lesser numbers of calls to re-enable the escalators. I.e. the issue has nothing to do with the engineering or designing, which was fine, but rather with the (poor) maintenance performed. Via Google translate: https://roma-repubblica-it.translate.goog/cronaca/2019/09/20/news/roma_scale_mobili_della_fermata_repubblica_il_consulente_efficacia_freno_dimezzata_-236533140/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://roma-repubblica-it.translate.goog/cronaca/2019/09/20...
    • freeqaz 4y ago
      Nice research. Thank you for sharing it!