Man dies after falling down elevator shaft

Monday 16th February, 07:49 PM JST

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smithinjapan at 04:06 PM JST - 16th February

"A 74-year-old man is in serious condition after falling down an elevator shaft, even though the elevator car had not arrived on the ground floor of a building..."

This needs to be worded better. It's a pretty logical conclusion that for the man to fall down the shaft the doors would have had to open before the elevator car arrived at the ground floor, but as I said the wording seems odd.

So, who was the elevator company? They going to raid it and punish everyone like with the Swiss group?
Sherman at 04:23 PM JST - 16th February

Is it a Schindler Lift?
whitepocky at 04:42 PM JST - 16th February

'elevator car' - the terminology seems to be getting more and more mind boggling. What happened to simple phrases such as 'the doors to the lift opened even though the lift remained on the fifth floor. The man consequently fell down the shaft......'
techall at 05:22 PM JST - 16th February

How about "look where you're going"?
Sidwarwick at 07:16 PM JST - 16th February

Due to the fact that the story does not specifically mention the name of manufacturer of the elevator I think you can safely assume that it was not a foreign company.
WilliB at 08:33 PM JST - 16th February

I hope this was not a Schindler elevator; in that case we won´t hear the end of this.
TokyoGas at 01:59 AM JST - 17th February

Yeah, who was the elevator company? The other article currently on this site states very plainly the name and the country of origin or the elevator. What's the story with that?
grafton at 07:26 AM JST - 17th February

He’s 74 delivering food, he opens the door of the lift, quite probably carrying a stack ox bento boxes or some such & just steps out in to nothing. And we see that JT have updated the story to make everybody look foolish again. A note from JT saying that they have updated wouldn’t go amiss would it? It’s just sad that an old man should still be working making deliveries.
Stonefish at 08:25 AM JST - 17th February

But really, does anyone else have a general gripe with Japanese elevators?

They seem to be really slow and quite often attempt the doors try and close on me when I enter. They seem a but schizo to me.
bobbafett at 04:27 PM JST - 17th February

This could of happened to anyone. His age is not really a factor. Everyone is used to the car being there when the doors open and anyone who had switched off for the monotonous ride to the office, looking at their phone, listening to music etc could suffer the fate. Sansei Yusoki Co will need to talk with their maintenance staff.
JasUK at 10:41 PM JST - 17th February

Review of Japanese lifts regulations are under review as we speak to come in line with European EN 81 Part 1 and Part 2:1998 standard and Lift Directive 95/16/EC which relates to CE marking, but Japan may apdopt similar with some national variations. These standards will only apply to new installation so review needs to be made on existing installations which i suppose will be in the hands of the ministry and Japanese Elevator Association (JEA).