Man dies after getting stuck on escalator

[odanny]

I've never heard of someone dying this way, he died a miserable death, with people walking past him, and finally an employee there hit the emergency stop button. He laid there for around 20 minutes before that happened, and by then he was toast.

 

[Darkwind]

sigh

This should shock us all.

My money is on the fact that many won't be.

 

[Lockback]

WTF is wrong with people????

 

[Hellokitty]

Sad. Not sure why the few people who tried to help didn't push the button...

 

[DonGlock26]

 

[Leo123]

It looks like he fell and his clothing got entangled with the comb plate at the bottom. Typical similar injuries have happened when a person's body part or clothing gets trapped between a step and side rail. The drive system of an escalator has powerful torque that a human just can't fight.

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I'm sure they'll be studying that escalator for faulty equipment or maintenance. It is my understanding that the 'comb' at the bottom is supposed to preclude this type of thing. The really horrible thing is that so many people just passed by and did nothing.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

An escalator is a moving vehicle. It stays in the same location, but it is always moving.

If you don't treat these DANGEROUS moving machines like the deadly traps they are.......things like this happen.

My opinion is the guy was tired from work, tripped at the bottom of the stairs because his shoes caught the floor the wrong way.......
and he fell down, where the sharp points of the escalator stairs caught his clothes and pulled him down. He tried to pull himself up, but that just made it worse, and the machinery pulled his clothes further into the mechanism which choked him to death.

Poor guy probably wasn't lucid enough to realize all he had to do wass reach behind him and push the button.

I feel for his mother, but people DID stop. Granted not for long, and they didn't try to pull him out or press the stop button.
Nobody even stayed with the man until help got there.



Thank the corrupt, Oligarchy politicians that took power away from public schools from the states and made it governmental.
That killed all the intelligence, logic, humanity, and learning life skills that kids had in this country.

Hell, when I was in high school, taking P.E. was something you HAD to take. And in P.E. part of the semester was geared for learning how to save people from common accidents or choking in public.

Luckily I LITERALLY graduated the year before the government started destroying the public schools here in Texas. And I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[Yarddog]

I've never heard of someone dying this way, he died a miserable death, with people walking past him, and finally an employee there hit the emergency stop button. He laid there for around 20 minutes before that happened, and by then he was toast.

I just cant imagine... walking by and not helping... anyone... its totally sick

 

[LibertyWeeps]

I just cant imagine... walking by and not helping... anyone... its totally sick

DEFINITELY not a TEXAN thing to do!!!!

Although, I have fallen down a couple of times on the sidewalk and nobody even looked my way.
But I know Texas is infested with too much garbage from up north and Hellifornia. I know any REAL Texan would have helped me up.
Or at the very least, asked if I needed assistance.

 

[Yarddog]

DEFINITELY not a TEXAN thing to do!!!!

Although, I have fallen down a couple of times on the sidewalk and nobody even looked my way.
But I know Texas is infested with too much garbage from up north and Hellifornia. I know any REAL Texan would have helped me up.
Or at the very least, asked if I needed assistance.

It wasnt a human thing to do. Too many are cowards or lazy??? I dont get it.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

It wasnt a human thing to do. Too many are cowards or lazy??? I dont get it.

You can't really blame them.

We've all seen WAY too many videos and stories in the news where good Samaritans get shafted with jail time or lawsuits when trying to help someone in need or save their lives. Instead of "Thank You" they get beaten down by the system and treated like criminals.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You can't really blame them.

We've all seen WAY too many videos and stories in the news where good Samaritans get shafted with jail time or lawsuits when trying to help someone in need or save their lives. Instead of "Thank You" they get beaten down by the system and treated like criminals.

No we haven't. STFU

 

[Natural Citizen]

I didn't watch the video, but if it's true that people just walked by the poor guy and let him lay there, it really speaks volumes to the erosion of virtue in modern society.

 

[The Duke]

I've never heard of someone dying this way, he died a miserable death, with people walking past him, and finally an employee there hit the emergency stop button. He laid there for around 20 minutes before that happened, and by then he was toast.

I've heard of this happening in the past, in fact, I was warned about it as a child.
I woulda cut his clothing loose, that would probably be my reaction.
Don't know where any button is, but that would probably work.

 

[Natural Citizen]

DEFINITELY not a TEXAN thing to do!!!!

Although, I have fallen down a couple of times on the sidewalk and nobody even looked my way.
But I know Texas is infested with too much garbage from up north and Hellifornia. I know any REAL Texan would have helped me up.
Or at the very least, asked if I needed assistance.

I was stuck just north of Lawton OK for a couple of years at the turn of the 80s/90s decade and went to Texas a few times. I didn't care for Texas. I was very young back then, barely an adult, and the myth of Texas didn't really live up to the reputation I'd expected. It didn't live up to what I'd been told about it or had read about it when growing up.

Over the years, I've had to go back there on work related matters, and it's still the same. Houston is really bad. Lotta weirdos walking around town there. Dallas, too.

Growing up I'd learned that it was a rough and tumble place where a man is a man but the feller dressed up in what looked like a fluffy pink flamingo outfit, wearing lipstick and high heels just didn't coincide.

 

[Gary Seven]

An escalator is a moving vehicle. It stays in the same location, but it is always moving.

If you don't treat these DANGEROUS moving machines like the deadly traps they are.......things like this happen.

My opinion is the guy was tired from work, tripped at the bottom of the stairs because his shoes caught the floor the wrong way.......
and he fell down, where the sharp points of the escalator stairs caught his clothes and pulled him down. He tried to pull himself up, but that just made it worse, and the machinery pulled his clothes further into the mechanism which choked him to death.

Poor guy probably wasn't lucid enough to realize all he had to do wass reach behind him and push the button.

I feel for his mother, but people DID stop. Granted not for long, and they didn't try to pull him out or press the stop button.
Nobody even stayed with the man until help got there.



Thank the corrupt, Oligarchy politicians that took power away from public schools from the states and made it governmental.
That killed all the intelligence, logic, humanity, and learning life skills that kids had in this country.

Hell, when I was in high school, taking P.E. was something you HAD to take. And in P.E. part of the semester was geared for learning how to save people from common accidents or choking in public.

Luckily I LITERALLY graduated the year before the government started destroying the public schools here in Texas. And I remember it like it was yesterday.

I grew up in New York in the 70's and 80's. P.E. was quite mandatory there and then too. We also had to drill on practical things like lifesaving, but that was usually in Health class or Home Economics and those classes were also fairly mandatory parts of the curriculum. Usually by 9th or10th grade everyone had taken such a class.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

I was stuck just north of Lawton OK for a couple of years at the turn of the 80s/90s decade and went to Texas a few times. I didn't care for Texas. I was very young back then, barely an adult, and it didn't really live up to the reputation I expected. It didn't live up to what I'd been told about it or had read about it when growing up.

Over the years, I've had to go back there on work related matters, and it's still the same. Houston is really bad. Lotta weirdos walking around town there.

Growing up I'd learned that it was a rough and tumble place but the feller dressed up in what looked like a fluffy pink flamingo outfit, wearing lipstick and high heels didn't coincide.

Unfortunately Houston has always been a cancer on the face of Texas. Now, Austin is too.
I've never been to either place myself, I've stayed around the Dallas area most of my life living here.

But I've heard nothing but horror stories my whole life, about Houston. And when the garbage came rolling in from Hellifornia and New Yuck from Obamas reign of terrors and Bidens continuation of it, Austin was picked for some reason for the majority of them infesting this state.

Now we've got Oligarchy Democrats and Libs spreading disease all over this state.

 

[citygator]

What was the actual cause of death? Not sure how you die with your clothes stuck in an escalator. What a crazy story.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

What was the actual cause of death? Not sure how you die with your clothes stuck in an escalator. What a crazy story.

Here's what Google A.I. has to say............


Steven McCluskey, 40, died 10 days after a February 27, 2026, accident at the MBTA's Davis Station in Somerville, where his clothing became trapped in an escalator for over 20 minutes before aid arrived. Surveillance footage showed passengers walking past him before an employee stopped the machinery; his family is demanding accountability.

Key Details

• Incident Date: February 27, 2026.
• Location: Davis Station (Somerville/Boston area), Red Line.
• Victim: Steven McCluskey, 40, of South Boston.
• Details of Incident: McCluskey fell at the bottom of a downward-moving escalator, and his clothes were pulled into the mechanism, trapping him and restricting his airway.
• Response Time: The surveillance video showed more than 20 minutes passed before an MBTA employee pressed the emergency stop button, with numerous passengers walking by during this time.
• Outcome: He was transported to the hospital with serious injuries and died 10 days later

 

[LibertyWeeps]

There are other reports of escalator deaths and malfunctions online too............

Here's one.........

What was the worst escalator incident?


2018 Rome escalator accident. On 23 October 2018, twenty-four people, mostly fans of the CSKA Moscow football team, were injured after a crowded escalator at a Rome Metro station malfunctioned. It suddenly sped up, and hurled people down the escalator.