Elevator warning sign

If you push the bin against the elevator door while going down, this might happen to you. (Via Cynical-C)

[#1 posted by grimc, July 13, 2009 12:36 PM]

Of all the risks people face, klamrisk is the worst.

[#2 posted by pato pal ur, July 13, 2009 12:37 PM]

apparently it may also create dead links...

[#3 posted by The Unusual Suspect, July 13, 2009 12:47 PM]

You can lessen klamrisk if you avoid eating them during months spelled with an "r".

[#4 posted by PaulR, July 13, 2009 12:51 PM]

"...during months spelled with an "r"."

In what language?

[#5 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 12:53 PM]

Very common sign in Swedish elevators actually. I even have the right pictogram on a self designed t-shirt nowdays. Ah, the sweet every day horrors... And yeah, kläm means squeeze or squash.

[#6 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 1:11 PM]

Uhm, that's not an elevator. I forget what it's called -- I'm sure somebody else will fill that in for me -- but it has no doors and is continually in motion. Thus, you have to be careful around the bloody things lest you die from your garbage can or some other physics-related cruelty. They're uncommon in the US (I've only ever seen one in a DC parking garage), but that pic obviously isn't from the US.

[#7 posted by Sork, July 13, 2009 1:12 PM]

Klämrisk photoshop thread.

A warning that one or a few pictures might be NSFW.

[#8 posted by angelika, July 13, 2009 1:14 PM]

Hehe, I have this in my building too. It's kind of like when it says 'only for external use' on the shampoo bottle.

[#9 posted by gollux, July 13, 2009 1:19 PM]

Almost as good as the one warning of amputation I saw on a piece of equipment, mid-forearm guillotined and blood gushing.

[#10 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 1:25 PM]

A key point here is that in most Swedish elevators, there is only an external door, flush with the elevator car. No internal door. So really what this is saying is, don't push the cart against the external wall or door as the car's moving up or down.

[#11 posted by IWood, July 13, 2009 1:33 PM]

Did they make this up? Or was it in response to an actual incident?

I must know.

[#12 posted by Robert, July 13, 2009 1:36 PM]

Klamrisk!!!

Farfetched are our transporter gods. I have seen some sacks near inner door (and) yellow photocell.

[#13 posted by Crystaltips, July 13, 2009 1:39 PM]

This is the funniest thing I've seen all week: it HAS to have been based on a real event, just look at the perfect way the poor little guy klammed his head. Too good.

Still laughing.

[#14 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 1:41 PM]

Presumably it is for a rather lethal paternoster elevator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster

[#15 posted by mattofdoom, July 13, 2009 2:00 PM]

Anon @ No.6,

We have one of the contraptions you mention here in a tower in Sheffield. It's called the patanoster.

For those who've never seen one, imagine a constant stream of openfronted lift cars riseing through the shaft, looping over through the roofspace, then decending a 2nd shaft (and looping again in the cellar). You hop into any car as it trundles past, and you can ride through the loops in the top and bottom to witness the gigantic finger-sliceing bicycle chains that run the whole show. It's an awesome ride and a H&S nightmare.

[#16 posted by Antinous / Moderator, July 13, 2009 2:07 PM]

That would be paternoster, as in the prayer that you say when you ride it.

[#17 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 2:20 PM]

Ha, that's funny! I took exactly the same shot on May 1st when I was in Stockholm!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/3524306569/in/set-72157617939993085/

[#18 posted by jimkirk, July 13, 2009 2:25 PM]

Along similar lines, I always liked the IMPALEMENT HAZARD signs associated with lightning rods.

http://www.theprotectionsource.com/Flathead/body_flathead.html

[#19 posted by Sutra, July 13, 2009 2:57 PM]

Wait...how do the mechanics of that work? I see this as you push the bin against a wall and then somehow wind up with your head klammed into the corner of the car??

[#20 posted by T0AD, July 13, 2009 3:50 PM]

i read somewhere else that it really happened then there was a video link to a youtube clip showing the type of elevator. It is a constant moving elevator that has no door. kinda operates like a bike chain always looping around. Its for hopping on and off. And some poor old lady had to go and get her face mashed against her trash bin.

http://www.av.se/inenglish/translatednews.aspx

[#21 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 4:02 PM]

It's fairly new (like a year or so) regulation in Sweden that says that all elevators without an internal door has to have that sign. And, yes, it's because there are accidents like that every year. I call the guy in the picture Leif and feel quite sad for him and his demise on a daily basis.

[#22 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 4:26 PM]

This is one of the few warning signs that I actually follow because the sign in itself is so foreboding. They are in many of the Swedish elevators and I shudder everytime I see them.
(Andreas, 32 y, Eskilstuna, Sweden)

[#23 posted by bobk, July 13, 2009 4:39 PM]

The Forklift Driver Klaus video is called for here. It's a classic! Don't do these things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwki29-rYQ&feature=related

[#24 posted by Anonymous, July 13, 2009 7:03 PM]

This is not, I repeat, NOT a paternoster type of elevator. What it is is an regular open car type, with doors on every floor to close off the elevator shaft, and hazardous edges going by as you go up or down. There are incidents every now and then where people haven't had the insight to push the garbage bin to the back of the elevator (or elevatör in this case), and have gotten fatally pinned against the back wall of the car.

Greetings from Sweden's friendly neighbor Finland (the home of Kone elevators), where most of the elevators now have inner doors and/or photovoltaic cells. And if you push the yellow button with the bell on it enough times, you get to talk to a friendly operator who is nowhere near where you are.

[#25 posted by igpajo, July 13, 2009 8:55 PM]

you know if there's a warning sign than it's happened at least once.

[#26 posted by RedShirt77, July 13, 2009 8:55 PM]

I used to have an unmarked elevator next to my office. People kept thinkingt it was an exit and opening the door and looking down the elevator shaft.

I put up a sign that said, "Warning! Please do not fall to your Death." and a picture of a guy falling.

[#27 posted by Takuan, July 13, 2009 9:09 PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ8YrpesN6E&feature=related

[#28 posted by ndollak, July 13, 2009 9:43 PM]

"See you at the pah-ty!" -- Arnold Schwartenegger in "Total Recall," after using such a dangerous lift to remove the arms from an opponent.

[#29 posted by Sork, July 14, 2009 3:11 AM]

#24 Lol finn, elevatör. Elevator is also a swedish word for the kind of conveyors with scoops that transport grain. Pronounced ele-vah-tor. Elevator, or lift, is called "hiss". Most elevators in Sweden are installed by Kone already.

By the way the sign says it's dangerous to transport goods like this in an elevator lacking inner doors or photocells. So it's just for older elevators because photocells and a direct hotline for help is current safety standard.

[#30 posted by Anonymous, July 14, 2009 3:47 AM]

Dick Maas' attempt at a horror movie, De Lift, had a case of Klämrisk too:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8886286526136191523#24m21s

[#31 posted by Anonymous, July 14, 2009 6:33 AM]

These aren't just on paternosters. Swedish elevators often (usually) don't have interior doors.

A similar sign showing another gruesome death on Swedish elevators.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slam525i/3172428363/in/set-72157603429633425/

[#32 posted by Anonymous, July 14, 2009 7:20 AM]

I saw this warning in an elevator in Germany. It was an old elevator with no inside doors. The funny thing was the graffitti on the sign annotating the guy as "Rudy"

[#33 posted by Modusoperandi, July 14, 2009 4:54 PM]

Man, I feel sorry about the guy that "inspired" that plaque, but damn if that isn't the funniest thing I've seen all day (and the post-sleep/pre-work period, part of which was spent naked).

[#34 posted by Anonymous, July 14, 2009 5:23 PM]

Actually, the funniest sign in Sweden or in the entire world is the one for speedbumps.

http://www.swedenwise.net/Photos/farthinder.JPG