Mumbai: In the second accident in six months in the same SRA building, three teenagers and two women were injured when the elevator hit the ground from the 10th floor of Mahakali Darshan 16 floors in Andheri (East) a little after Monday afternoon.
While three of them suffered from foot fractures, the duo of the men had severe bruises and swelling at their feet.
Two sustainable students are injured on the knee cover, the operation that will cost Rs 4 Lakh respectively.
TimesViewworly, the case of lift crashes, some of them are fatal, have often occurred in Mumbai, and the latest incidents show that strict safety standards regarding the design, construction and installation of lifts must be strictly enforced.
This is the second crash lift in the slum rehabilitation buildings in the past two months.
Comprehensive requests must be carried out, and permanent responsibilities of the elevator in the building, after two senior residents suffered back injuries when the other elevator crashed from the fourth floor.
Now, BMC has instructed the Public Works Department (PWD) to see if the elevator has the right certification and license.
“The victims said even though they had pressed the button for the ground floor of the fifth, the 10th winding elevator and then fell.
They were saved by breaking the elevator door.
They rushed to the hospital in Andheri Timur and West.
Rakesh Gurav, a resident, told TII .
Company maintenance lift ordered after the accident the 2nd six months of months of injury when the lift hit the ground on the 10th floor Mahakali Darshan in Andheri (east) on Monday.
six months ago, elevator Omega has served on the second elevator in the building After a similar accident.
Residents said the same service team had visited the building for elevator maintenance in other wings too.
The accident occurred between lunch and 12:30 when five survivors – Panchal Priyanka (50), Sangita Pawar (42) and his son Abhishek Pawar (15) and two of his friends Tushar Chavan (15) and Shubham Gosavi (15) from neighboring SRA buildings – entered the elevator on various floors.
Chavan Da N Gosavi, both grade 9 students, entered the elevator on the ground floor of Mahakali Darshan to meet their schoolmates of pawar, a living in the fifth floor, to go to school together.
Panchal, his daughter Vrushali said, entered the elevator on the third floor to go to his workplace at Andheri’s Tehsildar Office.
“I was at home when I got a call from building a resident who pulled my mother from the elevator.
He suffered a fracture in his left leg under the knee,” he said.
Brother Brother Aniket pawa said he rushed down when he received a call from the former lift fell.
“My brother and my mother suffered severe pressure at their feet.
It should be ease in two days,” he said.
Meanwhile, Gosavi has broken his legs.
One of the building buildings and party workers MNS Prasad Parulekar said the builder and lift contract company “almost did not provide the right treatment which caused two accidents in six months.
Mishap was waiting to happen with a little made by the builder to overcome the population problems”.
Other residents, Rakesh Halwai, said those who were downstairs rushed out when the elevator crashed and crashed into the spring on the ground floor with a loud sound.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone X) Maheshwar Reddy said Andheri police investigated this case ordered an omega elevator that had been given a maintenance contract by the builder.
Reddy said they would verify whether the accident occurred after servicing was carried out.
A spokesman for the builder of Omkar said the Mahakali Darshan SRA building (number 1) was not built by them and that they had built other buildings (7 to 10).
“They don’t have a role in Mishap lifts in the building,” said the spokesman.
When Tii called Omega elevator, an official who identified himself as Vilas said he was not aware of the incident and asked to examine with the company’s technical officials, one Kalpesh.
Despite recurring efforts, he cannot be contacted.
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