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    Mar 28, 2019 3 minutes

    If you are like me, getting into a lift doesn’t rate a second thought – except when something goes wrong. Consider these examples:

    • In 2010, a UK woman going about her normal day was crushed to death by a faulty lift at her gym.• The same year, the then 80-year-old world famous racing car driver Sterling Moss fell down a lift shaft when the doors opened prematurely, breaking his leg, a foot and several vertebrae.

    Although millions of lifts operate globally and billions of people are transported every day without failure, there are

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