In light of the tragic escalator video that surfaced this week I started looking into escalator injuries. I saw too many comments about how that would never happen here; That safety standards are just too high here and must be sub par in China because, well simply because it’s China and not us. What I found was pretty alarming.
In the US, there are roughly 33,000 escalators currently operating, far less than the number of elevators, yet injuries occur 15 … Keep Reading!!!