A NATIONWIDE inspection of thousands of elevators produced by a Switzerland-based company has been promised in Japan after a hotel worker was crushed to death by one.
The 63-year-old died when she got trapped between the floor of the lift and the top side of the door frame.
Investigators said the lift was moving even as the doors were open and the woman had tripped over the rising floor as she tried to enter.
Japanese media have been gripped by the accident, which occurred on Wednesday in the city of Kanazawa, and comes six years after a 16-year-old schoolboy was killed in an elevator made by the same firm.
Transport minister Yuichiro Hata told a news conference on Friday all 5500 elevators made and operated by Schindler would be inspected.
"We will make emergency checks of all the Schindler elevators on the basis of investigations into the cause of the accident," Hata said.
Schindler has said in a statement it was co-operating with a police probe into the incident, adding the elevator in question was installed in 1998.
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