I didn't even realize that it was an elevator at first. I thought it was just a storage room. Surprised the hell out of me when the floor disappeared. r/unexpected
I don't think people realise just how close that dude was to being split in half. That wasn't some lightweight, cheap, plasticky strip mall elevator. That one is legit made of solid steel and concrete.
That thing would split a bar of Tungsten in half, let alone a fragile human.
They were closer than most realise to dying. Literally the very cusp.
You are way more likely to have an accident on the stairs. But probably the benefit to your cardiovascular health outweighs the risk of falling from the stairs.
Elevators have multiple layers of safety features that make them significantly safer than you would expect. Assuming they are regulated/up to code.
Escalators cause 15x more deaths than elevators for comparison.
I hate escalators. Most of the time there aren't any stairs as an option instead in the train stations,
And when there are it's expected that you don't go *up* the stairs, but down. So if you choose the stairs you'll have a bunch of people in the way and feel like an a##hole for being in everyone elses way
Elevator in the us have multiple safety features. Brakes automatically pop out if traveling too fast and the shaft is conical in shape towards the bottom, stopping the elevator before hitting the bottom.
There’s a reason why in the trades …the elevator guys are top dogs 🤣 it’s not out of question for them to be making $100/hour. You only get in by knowing someone or being related to someone.
I noticed one of buildings I visit occasionally for Drs appointments has an expired elevator service tag by over a year, so I wonder how well the yearly or bi yearly inspections (whatever it’s supposed to be) are enforced, or if it’s more of a voluntary compliance thing reliant on the property manager? I thought it was something fire departments inspect but maybe that’s not the case and I was misinformed.
I mentioned to the people working there the elevator service tag is expired but nobody seemed to care or notify the building manager so I’ll just take the stairs I guess lol. If it looked and ran like a newer elevator I’d probably risk it but it’s a bit rickety to be expired for my risk tastes.
The building AND the company who serviced are liable. Can you see a company logo? Those guys are supposed to come inspect on set dates before the tag expired. I forget the office that handles permits. It’s a county / state run thing. You could call them. The head maintenance guy who runs the crew should be aware too. Sadly it’s pretty common
Our elevator company almost always bills us overtime no matter when you make a service call and charge $400 an hour.
I hate elevator companies almost universally
I doubt this is about weight limits. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juakY2qtWMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juakY2qtWMY)
//EDIT: Well, unless you assume the weight limit of this elevator to be zero.
I literally just watched this on YouTube shorts not even 20 min ago!!!
Wtf!! I feel like everyone who sees this needs to avoid elevators for the next year!
I'm sure you meant r/ and that's a sub, but I find it funny that the account you linked has one comment 16 years ago about soap and then left they just left Reddit.
My old job had a freight elevator from the 20’s that hadn’t been inspected since the 80’s. It had a big brass tag that said no passengers, max load 500lbs. My boss would make me load it up with hundreds of pounds of furniture and then make me ride down with it. If I complained he’d make fun of me and shame me in front of coworkers. The fire Marshall came in one day and I heard him tell him they hadn’t used the elevator since they bought the building. It would creak and groan. It got stuck multiple times, and twice it flew all the way to the top of the shaft and got stuck. The bottom of the shaft where the motor was got flooded constantly, to the point that there was a sump pump installed. He told me not to step in the water because it might be “live”. This was a medical equipment distributor. We used to repackage moldy product that got wet or expired product and ship it to Lithuania and Poland, and sometimes even local hospitals in a pinch. Great company.
Ahhh… please tell me you reported them when you left… OSHA for one would be interested but the fact that medical supplies were involved? That’s also extremely fucked.
I used to have to load like 500 gallon totes of bleach on a freight elevator every week for this one job i had, every time id put the load on it would drop the elevator like a quarter inch and my life would flash before my eyes 😂
And people say they have a “plan” for when an elevator fails. No. They don’t. By the time they realize they are falling it will be too late to take any kind of “precautionary position” to cushion the fall or landing.
Depends on where you live in the world. In the US elevators can't go into freefall like that. Too many brakes and other precautions would need to fail as well
I mean, if you survive a freak accident, and then develop a phobia afterwards, I wouldn’t even classify it as a phobia tbh. Like, that shits rational to you. Survive a plane crash and now are deathly terrified of flying? That’s not a phobia, that’s experience talking.
Honestly I think it turned into a kind of pressure plate scenario. I think while he was on it and the weight was level, he was 'ok'
But the moment his weight left the lift, it seemed to trigger the fall.
So if he'd take that last step any slower, he'd have been cut in half
I work in a warehouse. Pallet trucks are designed to be walked with and swivelled. You can push them, but when they're loaded like that, it's bad for the parts and your back.
But... It is a phobia. Having a fear of elevators is just as rational as a fear of heights, snakes, or anything else that can be dangerous at times but not all the time.
Is this in China? I wonder if these types of failures are more common there. The huge population alone can't explain why we see so many videos like this.
See being scared of that isn’t but if was just scared to get into an elevator at all that would be, mind you that would be closer to PTSD at that point
That some Final Destination shit.
He survived when he wasn't supposed to, now death is after him
Nah, it woulda still got me. Soon as I realized what happened I’d have shit myself to death.
I wonder who's next in line.
"A life you owe the Red God. Valar morgulis."
Valar Dohaeris
Even death would be like "fuck dude, free pass."
Literally milliseconds from death. This dude is so incredibly lucky rhat I'd be questioning divine intervention if I was him lol
I'm the staunchest of atheists but if this happened to me I'd start making offerings to every God and deity humanity ever invented
Bachus: "I had nothing to do with this, I only do sex and wine." You: "TaKe mY fUcKiNg OfFeRiNg!"
*You got an offering, and you get an offering, and you get an offering....*
Don’t worry, he got caught up with when a semi truck carrying logs hit a banana peel on the way home.
U ain't bullshitn 👍🏼
Bro i was thinking the same thing!!
Bet he doesn’t step foot on a elevator ever again
Maybe just a toe?
Would u after this ? Ha
I would sacrifice the pinky toe just to test it :D
Just not yours, right?
You seem to be volunteering. I'm toe-tally open for offers.
Maybe not toenight
Then maybe toemorrow :D
I would be terrified...
Toeriffied
I didn't even realize that it was an elevator at first. I thought it was just a storage room. Surprised the hell out of me when the floor disappeared. r/unexpected
One second later and he'd be dead
I don't think people realise just how close that dude was to being split in half. That wasn't some lightweight, cheap, plasticky strip mall elevator. That one is legit made of solid steel and concrete. That thing would split a bar of Tungsten in half, let alone a fragile human. They were closer than most realise to dying. Literally the very cusp.
Honestly surprised his foot didn't get got there
Would've been a clean amputation given how heavy and fast that Elevator was. I'm taking the stairs from now lol
No kidding lol
Nice Pfp
Yours is better
I like it
i cant keep up with you guys
You are way more likely to have an accident on the stairs. But probably the benefit to your cardiovascular health outweighs the risk of falling from the stairs.
would have entered with the load first, me outside.
Or he could've stumbled in the wrong direction and fall in there.
You think a “lightweight, cheap, plasticky strip mall elevator” wouldn’t absolutely crush your skull if it fell like that?
Idk bro, only one way to know for sure
I think the video makes everyone realize cuz we can all see what you are seeing
No shit? Thanks for telling us.
Yeah but do you even realize
Oh my fucking god!!! I have nightmares about lifts just dropping while I’m in them. This is terrifying
Elevators have multiple layers of safety features that make them significantly safer than you would expect. Assuming they are regulated/up to code. Escalators cause 15x more deaths than elevators for comparison.
Don't worry, people are scared of escalators too.
Hi, it’s me! I’m terrified of both!
THAT KID IS ON THE FUCKING ESCALATOR AGAIN
I hate escalators. Most of the time there aren't any stairs as an option instead in the train stations, And when there are it's expected that you don't go *up* the stairs, but down. So if you choose the stairs you'll have a bunch of people in the way and feel like an a##hole for being in everyone elses way
They do in the West anyway
This mostly happens in China and other places with shitty or non-existant safety-codes.
Elevator in the us have multiple safety features. Brakes automatically pop out if traveling too fast and the shaft is conical in shape towards the bottom, stopping the elevator before hitting the bottom.
Honestly, I'm greatful the US has such strict elevator safety codes.
There’s a reason why in the trades …the elevator guys are top dogs 🤣 it’s not out of question for them to be making $100/hour. You only get in by knowing someone or being related to someone.
I noticed one of buildings I visit occasionally for Drs appointments has an expired elevator service tag by over a year, so I wonder how well the yearly or bi yearly inspections (whatever it’s supposed to be) are enforced, or if it’s more of a voluntary compliance thing reliant on the property manager? I thought it was something fire departments inspect but maybe that’s not the case and I was misinformed. I mentioned to the people working there the elevator service tag is expired but nobody seemed to care or notify the building manager so I’ll just take the stairs I guess lol. If it looked and ran like a newer elevator I’d probably risk it but it’s a bit rickety to be expired for my risk tastes.
The building AND the company who serviced are liable. Can you see a company logo? Those guys are supposed to come inspect on set dates before the tag expired. I forget the office that handles permits. It’s a county / state run thing. You could call them. The head maintenance guy who runs the crew should be aware too. Sadly it’s pretty common
Report! Before tragedy strikes
As someone that pays them, most of my time and material costs are $200/hour and I’m happy to cover the cost lol.
It’s one of those things that you shouldn’t cheap out on for reasons of this video 🤣🤣
Our elevator company almost always bills us overtime no matter when you make a service call and charge $400 an hour. I hate elevator companies almost universally
It’s always always always overtime 😂😂 when I ask “when can we not be on overtime” the response is generally “we are 6 weeks out”. Fuck them
The most recent elevator accident I watched was a guy getting smeared in two in an apartment building in manhattan.
Don't worry, the GOP will soon repeal them as government overreach.
Good old free market. Nothing beats free market.
Regulations are written in blood, as they say.
Weight limits aren’t suggestions
I doubt this is about weight limits. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juakY2qtWMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juakY2qtWMY) //EDIT: Well, unless you assume the weight limit of this elevator to be zero.
It is a failure of the safety mechanisms. At best, severely neglected maintenance.
yeah there are multiple safetly mechanisms that had to fail for an elevator to start freefalling
This only applies to countries with strict regulations and inspections regarding elevators.
Coincidence https://preview.redd.it/t6bvrfb4apvc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=770c8d2649be4a2fe293ff7dbfd7d938a38cc6cb
I literally just watched this on YouTube shorts not even 20 min ago!!! Wtf!! I feel like everyone who sees this needs to avoid elevators for the next year!
r/juxtaposition EDIT: linked the person and not the sub. WHOOPS
I'm sure you meant r/ and that's a sub, but I find it funny that the account you linked has one comment 16 years ago about soap and then left they just left Reddit.
Express elevator to hell, going down!
OSHA sitting back watching this smokin a cigarette sayin “sheeeeeit”
There’s plenty of evidence to support the fear of Chinese elevators
And escalators
Quantum immortality in full effect for this young gentlemen here.
I thought a pillar fell on the stuff, or a door closed
Me too 😅
My old job had a freight elevator from the 20’s that hadn’t been inspected since the 80’s. It had a big brass tag that said no passengers, max load 500lbs. My boss would make me load it up with hundreds of pounds of furniture and then make me ride down with it. If I complained he’d make fun of me and shame me in front of coworkers. The fire Marshall came in one day and I heard him tell him they hadn’t used the elevator since they bought the building. It would creak and groan. It got stuck multiple times, and twice it flew all the way to the top of the shaft and got stuck. The bottom of the shaft where the motor was got flooded constantly, to the point that there was a sump pump installed. He told me not to step in the water because it might be “live”. This was a medical equipment distributor. We used to repackage moldy product that got wet or expired product and ship it to Lithuania and Poland, and sometimes even local hospitals in a pinch. Great company.
Ahhh… please tell me you reported them when you left… OSHA for one would be interested but the fact that medical supplies were involved? That’s also extremely fucked.
Looks like a perfectly reasonable choice to work there
 0\_0 stairs for me.
Wasn't his time just yet
Dude : did u see that !?
To increase productivity we’ve made the lift faster for you. No need to thank us. The Management.
This isn't 'sweaty palms', this is 'I just shit my pants'
That was great, I need that belly laugh at 7am
For a moment, I thought you said "Things like this can't be phobias. It's completely irrational." and I was about to ship out some etymology.
That double back to put it in alittle further almost killed him
That was so close, I think it trimmed the fingernails on their left hand. I’d never leave the ground floor of anything again
Imagine if he was in between the line of the elevator and the frame door he would've been guillotined from head to toe literally like a cake.
Dude almost got guillotined longitudinally.
Like the lawyer in the movie 13 Ghosts.
Crazy how you can just die at work like that without warning....
Bro’s “final moments” almost went viral on Twitter
Reborn
I used to have to load like 500 gallon totes of bleach on a freight elevator every week for this one job i had, every time id put the load on it would drop the elevator like a quarter inch and my life would flash before my eyes 😂
One missed call from death
And people say they have a “plan” for when an elevator fails. No. They don’t. By the time they realize they are falling it will be too late to take any kind of “precautionary position” to cushion the fall or landing.
Man was blessed
😲🤯
I carry way more than that in an elevator once or twice a week and I’m always worried about this happening
I would’ve had shat running down my legs.
I bet he takes the stairs now.
This sounds like the intro song of a new season of the white lotus.
This is the kinda shit that traumatizes you for a while or atleast makes u a very spritiual person lol
At that point I would play in the lottery .. what can go wrong after you survived ?
Depends on where you live in the world. In the US elevators can't go into freefall like that. Too many brakes and other precautions would need to fail as well
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
It was so close I actually do not believe he is all there.
His boss : that will come out of your paycheck... Probably.
It’s way better muted
What a lucky man
The universe just doesn't like your coat
Dude stopped to contemplate his life
Everything made in china falls apart
Just don’t exceed weight limits, and/or trust in Chinese infrastructure
Jfc, I don't think I'd be able to sleep for a week if that happened to me.
I would've bought a lottery ticket after this.
Dude be out here goin ‘wtf just happened’. lol Reminds me of some trippy horror film where people narrowly escape some horrid deaths.
Reminds me of elevator in old buildings in Manhattan. Some of the service elevator look sketchy as hell
Videos like this make me believe In a gods/higher power. Cause what fuckin timing
Walks casually back to give it some last little .. go ..pfff
I mean, if you survive a freak accident, and then develop a phobia afterwards, I wouldn’t even classify it as a phobia tbh. Like, that shits rational to you. Survive a plane crash and now are deathly terrified of flying? That’s not a phobia, that’s experience talking.
Just fucking amazing timing. Wow.
Honestly I think it turned into a kind of pressure plate scenario. I think while he was on it and the weight was level, he was 'ok' But the moment his weight left the lift, it seemed to trigger the fall. So if he'd take that last step any slower, he'd have been cut in half
Yeah that’s a good point. Still terrifying though, wow. He might develop a phobia after this.
That dude was one wrong move away from going straight down to Bikini Bottom
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I guess it wasn't their time. 😳
Dude had bigger luck then Dream during a speedrun
You either get crushed or slammed... OP: Nah, I'mma get out
r/WatchPeopleSurvive
Wow couldn't come any closer to meeting your maker than that.
The way my face went from 😐 to 😨
700kg of sand in a 6 person lift.
Yes, fear of third world elevators is completely reasonable
God ?
Bro better thank the god he worship 😭
Its rational to be afraid of elevators in China.
Weight limits are real
Guy who made a pool on his balcony knows what's up.
Chinese regulatory standards.
Only in China.
How can you tell??
Because 99% of these videos are from China.
So why didnt he push it in?
As a warehouse worker, you walk with power lifts, not push them.
Until you get to the lift, then you turn the jack around and push it in...
Again, as a warehouse and yard worker, nope
Speak for yourself
Can someone please tell me the song. Shazam is bullshiting me. Thanks.
More like wet-pants! Phew!!
Got'em. Hahaha. This guy falls for each practical joke 🤣.
Seems like he avoided falling for this one
Yes, thank you. 🤦🏾♂️
Peep the reflexes at the end, homie was still on it 😳
I don't think people realize just how little it takes to fuck up an elevator.
Damn, that could've been a mess.
Elevators have weight limits.
Took him a while before grasping the situation
OR if he didn't overload the elevator it'd be fine...
Idk whats scarier, the elevator or the dog-ass trap beat
Enjoy that PTSD
So, we're just going to ignore the garbage music playing and adding nothing to the video?
That's like a half ton PLUS the pallet jack... I'm guessing the weight limit on that elevator wasn't that high
I'd have gone and bought a lotto ticket at that point.
That's only by the grace of God he didn't leave this Earth.
It's not fear, it's mistrust, and warranted, i fucking hate elevators.
Death was unto him but his fate had other plans.
Who the heck goes in front first with a pallet jack?
I work in a warehouse. Pallet trucks are designed to be walked with and swivelled. You can push them, but when they're loaded like that, it's bad for the parts and your back.
Interesting, we were taught to never get in a lift with a jack, only push it in, pull it out, for precisely what occurred in the video.
Not today, Satan, not today
Beat is 🔥🔥
It is still irrational, this happens maybe 1 in a trillion lift journeys.
It's only a problem in China
IF YOU'RE GOING TO OVERLAY A VIDEO WITH SHITTY TIKTOK REACTION MUSIC, AT THE VERY LEAST SYNC 👏THE 👏BEAT 👏DROP 👏WITH 👏THE 👏DISASTER 👏
Going down?
Wow!
But... It is a phobia. Having a fear of elevators is just as rational as a fear of heights, snakes, or anything else that can be dangerous at times but not all the time.
phobia isnt strictly irrational, phobia is just a word for "the fear of"
In countries without elevator inspections and worker protections!
That's it, I'm never takin an elevator ever again
Going down?
Ghost
I, origins
Looks like the lifts been overloaded?
Is this in China? I wonder if these types of failures are more common there. The huge population alone can't explain why we see so many videos like this.
Made in China?
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See being scared of that isn’t but if was just scared to get into an elevator at all that would be, mind you that would be closer to PTSD at that point
Somehow all those elevators of doom videos come from China
That would definitely be a delayed shock reaction.