Wednesday 30 January 2013

'Faulty lift should have been locked,' care home plunge inquest told - Cardiff news - CardiffOnline - WalesOnline

'Faulty lift should have been locked,' care home plunge inquest told - Cardiff news - CardiffOnline - WalesOnline: A faulty�lift used by a carer who fell down the 20ft shaft with a 96-year-old pensioner should have been turned off and locked up according to a lift specialist.

Care home resident May Lewis, 96, died, and Carol Conway was seriously injured after plunging down the lift shaft at Pontcanna House care home on March 6 last year.

Lift specialist Sven Ivor Hillman said: “It should have been turned off and locked up if it was not working.
“The whole left should have been shut off until it was fixed.”

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