Riding the Escalator: How Dangerous is it Really?

Introduction: About 10,000 escalator-related injuries per year result in emergency departmenttreatment in the United States. Since the 1990s, a steady increase has been reported, but fewstatistics on escalator-related injuries have been published worldwide. We have therefore analyzedescalator accide...

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Main Authors: Louisa H. Schminke, Victor Jeger, Dimitrios S. Evangelopoulos, Heinz Zimmerman, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2013-03-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9p38c0sz