Man trapped between train and platform

PhillyDee said:
There could be a huge issue with the fact that they released the man after 30 minutes and then several minutes later the firecrew arrived. He should only have been released after the firecrew arrived. The body builds up toxins during crushing, and anything later than 10 minutes can be fatal due to this. Firecrews and Ambulances carry the correct medication to help neutralise the toxins.
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Yeah crush injuries are very dangerous, usually blunt chest trauma (for example being crushed in a road traffic collision) is where toxins are high risk.

Even more surprising is that he didn't haemorrhage out?

I think the mechanism of injury is what probably saved his life. If he had really been crushed in the true sense of the word, very much doubt he would have survived. Each fracture of the femur has the potential to exudate 1.5 L of blood. So double fracture, he could potentially have lost 3L, not to mention damage to femoral arteries, pelvis.

Think he'd probably fell, broken pelvis and/or femur.
 
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The extender seems to be the most dangerous and utterly stupid design idea I have seen so far. Whoever came up with this idea needs to be placed between the extender and the train to experience the music:mad:.

In the 2nd youtube video that shows passengers stepping off onto the extender. Now what if some malfunction occurs in the extender system and it goes back inside the platform while passenegrs are stepping on it. I shuddder to think what will happen:eek::(.
 
CSI or Homicide did exactly this a good few years ago - for the life of me I can't remember which. Private Pile from Full Metal Jacket played the character trapped between the subway train and platform...

Life imitating Art!


Hope he's allright.
 
Tefal said:
remember ten of thousands/hundreds of thousands of people have used this safely before...
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union square NYC ! millions !

like i said on page 1 it looks like he was carrying that box and not looking where he was going


edit - wiki says ''34,245,245 passengers entered this station in 2009,'' they use the same types of gap filler platforms on a couple of other NYC stations and in hong kong too where i guess they have similar users

its a total freak accident
 
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On a subway like that, it is about 20cm then it's recessed as far as I can tell. Still, he must off got off the train before the extender. :(
 
I remember reading something like this many years back when people become stuck between the platform and under ground train in the usa, and 9 times out of ten when the fire service e.t.c turned up they say we are looking at a dead man even thou the person is still alive because the bottom half of the body has twisted and once the train was moved then you can guess the rest.

ps.I am aware that this is a little different just thought i would offer some useless information.
 
"andy" said:
union square NYC ! millions !

like i said on page 1 it looks like he was carrying that box and not looking where he was going
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Wrong.

One of the articles linked on here specifically states that the box belongs to a man on the platform who tried to use it to stop it crushing him.
 
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