E350 badly damaged after cargo lift plunged down

[Guest keeptouch]

Two men emerged shaken but mostly unhurt from a cargo lift which plunged one floor in an industrial building in Kaki Bukit Avenue 3 on Thursday.

They were believed to have been on the way down in Block 1 of KB-1 building when the lift car suddenly dropped, and came to a juddering halt between the third and second floors.

Two cars parked on the first-floor carpark were damaged. Steel beams and some machine parts, dislodged by the malfunctioning lift, had crashed through the roof of the first floor, sending a pile of metal and plaster onto the cars.

The two men were trapped for about 20 minutes until lift technicians freed them. Their names were not released.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_726096.html

[Guest lightning]

ya lor...so sayang :Cry:...wrong place wrong time :shocked:

[Guest keeptouch]

its an E350 somemore.....

[Guest keeptouch]

The cable of a cargo lift at Kaki Bukit apparently snapped, causing parts of the lift to crash through the carpark ceiling right onto two parked cars.

STOMPer Lippmann tells us more:

"This incident happened at around 5pm.

"In the photos, a black Mercedes and a white Malaysian car were badly damaged. These two cars were parked at a basement carpark, and directly above the two cars are two cargo lifts.

"It is suspected that the cargo lift cable snapped and the counterbalance weights dropped from an unknown height, crashing through the floor of the cargo lift column.

"To the best of my knowledge, there were two people in the cargo lift during the incident. No one was injured.

"Some Kaki Bukit 1 workers commented that in the past, the cargo lifts were made by Fujitec but were subsequently changed to some brand from China.

"They also mentioned that there have been frequent breakdowns of the cargo lifts recently, and also said that this incident may be due to a lack of maintenance.

"Some commented that this incident should serve to raise awareness of the dangers of lack of maintenance.

"Imagine is the cable snaps while the lift is at higher floors, falls freely and crashes to the ground floor.

"I can't imagine the injuries (or even death) that passengers in the lift would sustain."

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/this_urban_jungle/794412/freak_accident_lift_parts_crash_through_ceiling.html

[Guest twisti]

that merc is a very new car! if i remember correctly is SJY plate

[Guest hkhamateur]

Sayang man! :Cry:

if owner wanna sell after fully claimed n repaired, I'll take! :whistle:

[Guest ACSLK]

OMG, is a Merc.......

cheers

[Guest chiaster]

what a waste for the Merc! :sad: hope all goes well for the owner...

[Guest manmerlion]

I wonder if the owner is a member of SGMERC.

Heart pain.... Hope the building owner is adequately insured. If not, it's a nightmare for the car owner if he were to claim for the building owner.

[Guest blackknight]

Cargo lift plunges 3 storeys down into cars

By Alvin Lim

Five minutes.

That was all that separated Mr Mong Kok Son, 47, and Mr Yap Seng Choi, 39, from possible serious injury or even death.

Mr Mong, director of interior design company Son Heng Interiors, and his employee, Mr Yap, had parked their cars at the basement carpark of industrial complex KB-1 at Kaki Bukit Avenue 3 slightly before 6pm on Thursday.

Five minutes later, in their office on the 10th storey, they heard a "deafening" crash.

Then, they received a call informing them that there had been an accident, and that their vehicles had been damaged.

Mr Mong said that they immediately rushed down to the basement to find a hole in the ceiling and their cars smashed by heavy metal.

He said: "Our car engines were still warm. I can't imagine what would have happened if we were still in the car."

A cargo lift is believed to have plunged three storeys to the ground.

The heavy metal that fell on the cars, parked directly below the lift shaft, had served as counter-weights in the lift.

There were two foreign workers in the lift at the time, but they escaped with minor injuries.

The side window and rear windscreen of Mr Mong's two-year-old Mercedes Benz E350 was smashed and the rear left door panel and roof were heavily dented.

Mr Yap's Malaysian-registered Nissan Livina MPV bore the brunt of the damage - the car's cabin was turned into a heap of twisted metal.

Said Mr Yap, a supervisor: "My car had just turned two yesterday, so this is the worst thing that could happen."

He said that he did not return to Malaysia yesterday night, and slept in the company office instead.