Wisconsin student found dead in dumbwaiter

wfgodot said:

Accident, methinks, not a prank or homicide.

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jjenny said:

I don't understand how it can be an accident. She was a gymnast. Therefore presumably very coordinated and not clumsy.
How did she end up in a dumbwaiter?

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A waitress has survived after her head was crushed by a dumbwaiter when she tried to grab food as the service lift moved away.

Cafe waitress Renata Kovalyova, 32, became trapped at a shopping centre in Saratov, a city in south-western Russia.
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UPDATE: A person was using a small dumb waiter-style elevator, and became stuck and injured in the process, Tacoma Fire spokesman Joe Meinecke said.

Technical rescue crews cut the person out the elevator, and took the patient to an area hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, Meinecke said.

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A California woman had to have her arm amputated after an "unspeakable" nightmare in which a dumbwaiter pinned her arm "like a guillotine" for 21 hours, she claims in court.

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A waitress working in an Oklahoma City restaurant plunged to her death after falling down a lift shaft.

Cheryl Marie Bauer was operating a dumbwaiter at the Paseo Grill Reserve in the city's Paseo arts district last Friday when the tragedy happened.

Investigators believe Miss Bauer was loading or unloading the dumbwaiter on the first floor when it had a mechanical malfunction, fell to the ground floor and 'took her with it'.
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TOKYO -- Two people died Monday after separate lift incidents in Japan, with a restaurant worker trapped in a dumb waiter and an office worker caught half-way through the doors when an elevator suddenly dropped.

A 28-year-old woman died after getting trapped in the dumb waiter at a restaurant in the central city of Nagoya late Sunday, police said. The lift, reportedly just 70 centimeters (28 inches) high by 60 centimeters wide, was designed to carry dishes between floors of the restaurant.

“An assistant manager found her stuck in the door after she didn't reply to his call,” said a police spokesman in Aichi prefecture. The injured woman was rushed to hospital but died early Monday morning, according to authorities.---

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jjenny said:

I don't understand how it can be an accident. She was a gymnast. Therefore presumably very coordinated and not clumsy.
How did she end up in a dumbwaiter?

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Olivia522 said:

I was a gymnast growing up. Small & strong. And liked to climb in and on things...luggage, boxes, trees etc
When I was college aged, climbing in there might've seemed like a fun thing to do.
Could also be a freak accident. Reports I've seen so far haven't said anything suspecting foul play.
Sad story & a life cut too short in any event.

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HARRISON, N.Y., Sept. 10— A woman who tried to climb into a moving dumbwaiter at a country club was crushed to death between the dumbwaiter and the shaft, the police said Wednesday.

The death Tuesday of Lisa Fellis, 23 years old, of Ardsley, was considered an accident, said Lieut. Richard Riguzzi.
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) - Federal workplace safety investigators are looking into the death of a Schenectady restaurant co-owner who died after his head became wedged in the kitchen dumbwaiter.

Schenectady Fire Chief Michael Della Rocco says it appears Israel Silva was trying to repair the dumbwaiter at Bangkok Bistro early Saturday when it suddenly became activated. The small elevator is used to carry food from the basement kitchen to the first-floor dining room.

Della Rocco says Silva's head was trapped. He was pronounced dead at the scene of head trauma.

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BROOKLINE, MASS. — DEATH IN DUMBWAITER. An 18-year-old man was accidentally crushed to death while trying to ride in a dumbwaiter at a gourmet deli. Kevin Gannon of Brookline, a part-time employee at the J. Bildner & Sons store, was found by a co-worker and was rushed to Beth Israel Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The teen-ager had unloaded food from the dumbwaiter into a basement freezer as the store was preparing to close. Then he apparently decided to ride in the 3-foot-square cubicle rather than walk up the stairs. ''He positioned himself part way into the dumbwaiter and then reached out to push the button to take himself back up,'' police Sgt. Thomas Taylor said. ''He got caught between the base of the dumbwaiter and the wall.''

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What started out as a regular day on the job Tuesday, ended in death for 73-year-old Kenneth Lund who fell 30 feet down a dumbwaiter shaft at an oyster processing facility in Seabeck WA.
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Lund had been working on improvised scaffolding that was approximately three stories in the air when he fell.

“"It’'s my understanding that the man inadvertently missed his step and fell down the dumbwaiter shaft,”" Theresa MacLennan, CKFR spokeswoman, added.

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After dropping off his wife, George Davis went to park the car and was killed after he fell down a dumbwaiter-style shaft used to access different levels in the parking garage, authorities said.

The 63-year-old plunged four stories to his death, authorities said. Davis apparently tried to use the device, which resembles a vertical conveyor belt and is used to access different levels in the four-story State Parking Garage, 171 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago Fire Department spokesman Joe Roccasalva said.

"I can't even imagine how this happened," niece D'Andrea Anderson said, speaking in front of her uncle's home in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood. "He's very, very intelligent. He's not the type of person who would try to do something like that."
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A 15-year-old Pasadena CA boy who became entangled in the cables of a dumbwaiter was crushed to death when he was pulled into the path of the machine, sheriff's deputies said. The boy, Kevin Paul, apparently was crushed after he caught his hand in the machine's cables, sheriff's Deputy Rick Adams said. The dumbwaiter, used for hauling groceries and trash, is outside the boy's home on Pasadena Glen Road and runs from the house to a driveway below, Adams said.

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Ali Smith's Booker-nominated novel, "Hotel World," plunges into existence with a dramatically spooky "Woooooooo-/hooooooo what a fall . . .," the swan song of Sara Wilby's ghost.
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The ghost begins with a fragmentary account of who she was. Sara Wilby, a shy, working-class girl of 19, had just started a job as a hotel maid. Taking a dare by a young porter, the petite champion swimmer folded herself into a dumbwaiter. The cable broke, and she fell to her death.
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http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Maid-s-nostalgic-ghost-makes-a-haunting-narrator-2878287.php

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[A]ccording to Fountain City, Wisc., police officer Jason Mork, she was “trapped inside the entirety of the device.” He declined to say more, adding that “to explain more of her specific location, orientation or obvious injuries would require an extremely graphic explanation.”

In a 911 call shortly before 8 p.m., a WingDam employee said she was afraid a co-worker had been caught in the machinery, according to the Winona Daily News. “I think one of my co-workers got [caught] in, like, our dumbwaiter,” she said, “but I’m not willing to look close enough.”

A fellow employee looked and then the first employee told the dispatcher: “It’s her. We need someone here, like, ASAP.”

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nycgrl said:

I admit, I had no idea what a dumbwaiter was and had to google it.
My hinky meter is going off, though.

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