Depending on where your family lives, works, and shops, you may use elevators and escalators on a regular basis and may not give it a second thought.

Escalator Dangers for Children

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports that there were about 11,000 injuries on escalators in 2007, mostly from falls. In addition, there have been at least 77 reports of entrapment — when hands, feet, or shoes (mostly clogs and slide sandals) get trapped in the escalator — since 2006.

• tie their shoelaces before getting on the escalator
• stand in the center of the escalator, face forward, hold a parent’s hand, and step off at the end
• refrain from sitting or playing on the escalator — it should not be treated as an amusement park ride

Elevators can be dangerous too. Although most injuries and deaths involve the people who work on and maintain elevators, passengers can get hurt too. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, on average, about six people a year die in and around elevators. This includes about one child under the age of ten years old each year.

Many others are injured.

Of course, the most serious injuries, including those that were life-threatening, involved falls into empty elevator shafts, including when the elevator doors opened and there was no elevator car to get into. Deaths and serious injuries involving elevators also occurred when people get struck by the elevator between floors, fall when trying to get out of a stuck elevator, or when an elevator collapses.

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