Keywords: lift, guide shoes, vandalism, lift engineers, safety of non-employees,

High rise deaths cost Otis £545,000

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.05.2006

An incident in which two men plunged down a tower block lift shaft after the lift door swung open and closed like a "cat flap", has cost a lift operator Otis £545,000 in fines and costs.

The prosecution followed an accident on 4 February 2001 at Shirley Towers in Southampton ...

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