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Woman crushed to death by elevator car after freak accident

December 15, 2011 @ 11:57 am

Photo: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times This is incredibly sad and horrifying. A 41-year-old woman named Suzanne Hart was crushed to death by an elevator shaft after it shot up suddenly while she was half-way into the elevator car. The … Continue reading →

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Glitch in National Elevator car shaft will cause elevator to freefall

November 22, 2011 @ 10:07 pm

This is scary if the uploader is to be believed. According to her, National Elevators (not sure which one, but a company by that name at least) deploys elevators with a mechanical glitch where if you call the elevator UP, … Continue reading →

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Rollerblading down a salt mine in Poland

August 10, 2011 @ 3:29 am

THIS. IS. AWESOME! [via]

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Robert Shone photographs 3100-foot shaft in China

October 30, 2008 @ 4:11 pm

The Daily Mail has some fantastic (and big!) pictures of one of the world’s deepest underground shafts. This particular shaft is located in China and measures an incredible 3100 feet in depth. An international team of explorers climbed down the … Continue reading →

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