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Friday June 23, 1:03 AMSchindler lifts' maintainer skipped manuals: police(Kyodo) _ Police suspect a Japanese maintenance company for Schindler elevators in a Tokyo apartment building had failed to follow checkup manuals before a fatal accident on June 3 on one of the units, investigation sources said Thursday.The Swiss-based company has blamed the accident on poor maintenance, denying any fault in manufacturing. The police suspect some of the checks by SEC Elevator Co. on the elevator's brake system were insufficient against the checkup manuals concluded by the maintenance company and a public housing corporation affiliated with the Minato Ward office, the sources said. The police believe a brake malfunction was one of causes of the accident which killed 16-year-old Hirosuke Ichikawa at the building in Minato Ward. Tokyo-based SEC Elevator submitted a report to the housing corporation after a regular inspection in late May that no trouble on the brake system controlling the unit has been found, the sources said. But investigators have detected after the accident abnormalities on a bolt and a brake pad in the system, they said. The police suspect the high school student died after being wedged between the ascending elevator floor and the frame of the building when the elevator suddenly moved up with its doors wide open as he was backing out of it on the 12th floor of the 23-story building while straddling his bicycle. |
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