Escalator Injuries: What the Evidence Shows
Escalator stories are about trapped feet, but most escalator injuries are falls, and most of the injured are older adults. What the evidence shows.
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Nobody Is Trampled. They Suffocate Standing Up, and It Begins at Six People to a Square Metre.
Virtually all crowd deaths are compressive asphyxia, not trampling, and the word stampede points the blame in the wrong direction. The density ladder, the forces involved, what the Itaewon and Karur investigations found, and the one threshold worth acting on: when you are touched on all four sides, leave.
