Paternoster - The most dangerous elevator in the world

From 1970 to 1983, 5 people died when using this ladder at Newcastle University.

The most dangerous elevator in the world

An elevator is a vertical transport device that transports people and goods between floors of a ship, building or other structure. Modern elevators are often equipped with electric motors to generate traction cables and counterweight systems such as cranes, or hydraulic fluid pumps to raise a cylindrical piston.

Elevators are an integral part of modern life.

Types of elevators normally operate according to a very safe mechanism, when the ladder is run by the floor, the door is opened and the person entering the door closes and the new ladder continues. If for some reason the door is closed, the ladder will not run.

Even so, the Paternoster ladder is completely different, which was dubbed the "world's most dangerous elevator. This first type of ladder was installed in Dartford, United Kingdom in 1884. Then Paternoster has been introduced to the Netherlands and Germany.

Operation mechanism of Paternoster ladder.

Paternoster elevator has no floor door and there is no cabin door, who wants to use the waiting ladder at the floor door, when the ladder runs up, they must step in timely into the elevator cabin. Many people were killed when using this elevator, even some people even fell into the elevator pit. So this elevator system is not suitable for the elderly, children and people with disabilities.

Paternoster elevator runs at a very low speed of only about 0.3m / s, but with the operating principle plus the lack of floor doors making this elevator become a dangerous elevator system for all customers when use.

From 1970 to 1983, 5 people died when using this ladder at Newcastle University. In 2012, an 81-year-old old man died due to falling down a ladder. Therefore, this type of elevator is considered the most dangerous elevator in the world.

With this level of danger, Paternoster has been banned in many countries around the world. However, for these elevators that are still in operation, investors have to install more elevator doors and modern control systems to lift the elevator as other common elevator lines.