13 Ways To Die In An Elevator That Are Straight Out Of A Horror Movie 

"You have a much better chance of being crushed by one than falling in one" Now I feel much safer.

Death by mechanical device unnerves me because it's just so indifferent to the fact it's obliterating a person.

That elevated my fear of being killed by an every day object... In all seriousness though, lifts are beasts, some can lift 2 tons of weight, so a human, in an empty lift, can easily be crushed, or sliced in half. Scary...

Getting stuck in an elevator is terrifying

*thanks for fueling my phobia of elevators even more :)*

Also in Houston, a woman drowned in an elevator in the building I worked in (Bank of America bldg). It was 2001 and the elevator descended into a flooded subterranean parking garage. I always had the creeps riding that elevator after that incident.

A few months ago, at a Nuclear Power Station, a woman fell 16 floors off a Goods Elevator after she was trying to get out of the elevator that broke down. Miraculously she survived. The victim, including the first responders had to get psychiatric therapy.🙏🏻

Worked on elevators for a lot of years, and I think you have been fed a lot of stories. Many have died on elevators, but the free falling idea would be very hard to pull off ... they are like a fail safe brake. I did have one clown, that was told by a state safety inspector, that the cables were getting rusty, so he oiled them up. I got called to the site, checked a few things, got on board on the first floor, and the car shot up 4 floors (Free-lifting), The counterweight on the other end of the cables weighs a lot more than an empty elevator, or a car with only one person on it. It got going pretty fast until the counterweight hit the floor, as I hit the top of the shaft, being lifted 2' off the ground. Safety brakes only work on the way down ... not up. For a drive cable to break, and a governor cable to break at the same time (Not even on the same pulleys), that would be almost impossible. If the governor cable is not working, a lot of other things come into play.

I love this channel, I learn so much, even if it is very sad 😞

There's someone really fixated on death in the team☠

Survives with two elevator accidents back to back? This woman needs to play the lottery

Lift going up full speed and coming out from the top of the building is one of my worst childhood fear

" It would be about as effective as spitting on yourself in a house fire", was the most hilarious thing that I heard all day. Thanks I needed that one.

"This is why I use the stairs."

I remember the one from houston, actually he had his hands full and stuck his head forward thinking the sensors would stop the doors as they were closing. There was a poor woman stuck inside with the partial remains for over an hour!🤕

A poor football player for a College/University was recently crushed due to an elevator fault 😢. That would definitely be one of the worst ways to die

THIS is the worst way to die. Slow, mentally painful deaths where you're fully conscious that there's nothing you can do to save yourself. I'd rather take a headshot.

I’m from Chicago and I have never heard of this before, that sounded brutal

I'm incredibly glad to see a RU-vid video which actually gives the proper information on these things and not just scaring people. Good job 👍🏽

RIP to the athlete that recently died from an elevator

First it was the elevators, then it was the robots, machines are coming for us all!!!! :P

worst way to die in the history of deaths: jumping in a pool of legos

“Lonely- Worst Ways to Die”

Thanks for the info. Infographics. 😉

Hello! I’m a huge fan of this channel and have had this question for a while. Can you guys do a video about junko furuta? Her story is truly sickening and she deserves justice. I think it would be really interesting to see you guys pick up her case. And her murderers are still free, roaming the earth. Edit: this story is very, very horrific and the people in my replies have learned about it because of my comment. It is important to shine light on her story but like I said it’s very graphic. If you’re not into that don’t read/watch about it.

one time my dad was in an elevator and it just completely stopped and opened its doors. The only way out was to jump onto the closest floor and pray he didn't fall. He was luckily the only one in the elevator so he didn't have to worry about anyone else. He didn't know if it would fall again so, he jumped. And I exist so I think we can all tell that he survived.

This is why I’m scared of elevators. It’s a totally rational fear…

Thank you Infographics Show, now I will be taking the stairs for the rest of my life.

Drowning in an elevator would definitely be one of the worst ways to die. That’s just beyond.

I'd like to die being a tunnel rat instead of dying on an elevator lol

That irl footage at the end was nice! Just a lil clip for that one story! Love it

Moral of today’s story: Always take the stairs.

Makes me think of the poor people on the Costa Concordia (I think that was the cruise name) who were in the elevator when it crashed/the blackout happened. I believe they eventually drowned because no one came to look for them as it sank, if it wasn’t for the captain leaving literally no one would’ve died from that crash (yes if he didn’t crash it that would be true too, but things could have been fine afterwards if he had done his job). I seriously can’t imagine what it’s like to have time to process the fact you’re going to die, especially if it’s not going to be a quick or painless death once it begins.

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One of the worst elevator accidents I've heard of happened some years ago at an industrial plant in Germany. A worker had been loading a huge freight elevator and was now standing inside it close to the edge. Between the edge and the unprotected shaft wall with the doors there was a 15cm gap. After the doors closed behind the man, and the elevator slowly started ascending, apparently some of his gear or clothing got caught in a nail or protrusion on the wall near the doors, tugging him against the edge and the moving wall. He did not manage to slip out of his gear, and the poor chap was forcibly mangled little by little into the narrow gap. His remains would later have to be scraped off the shaft wall. Today they are using this accident as a warning example at many industries to emphasize safety in hazardous working environments.

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"A shadow across my heart". Nothing brings out poetry like...dead people.

“Bathtubs are more dangerous” Is that supposed to make me feel better?

I am so sorry that keeps happening I hope you get well soon

I've gotten trapped in a elevator and that was one of the scariest half an hour I've witnessed and I refuse to ride in one

It’s not the fall that kills you... it’s the sudden deceleration at the end.

I was backed up to an elevator my sophomore year of college and the elevator grabbed my backpack I was wearing. The doors wouldn't open so I wrestled the backpack off and shoved it through the rest of the way. The front desk was confused why a backpack rode down by itself. That dorm elevator was VERY sketchy, malfunctioned frequently, and was often shut down for repairs.

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There's no way she starved to death, she would have dehydrated to death a very, very long time before that would happen. It takes about a week to die of dehydration and you can't starve to death in a month unless you are already underweight.

I’m traumatized by elevators and here’s why: My grandparents used to live in a small apartment thats only 4 stories high, they lived in the 3rd story, and once I was staying at my grandparents house for 3 days, on the 2nd day the worst thing imaginable happened. I was going to get groceries with my grandma. While me and my grandma were in between the 3rd and 2nd story the elevator stopped, and make some loud noises. After about 5 minutes it slowly continued lowering and than it just went into a free fall. It wasn’t a really high fall, but it was a very scary and painful one. Before we could blink or even say anything we were already on the ground. I broke my ankle that day and my grandma dislocated her knee and shoulder and broke her hip… But we both recovered

This is just the thing for me to brighten up my day These videos very are positive this put’s in such a happy mood 😃😃

I'm already fairly afraid of elevators and always walk up the stairs, so this isn't much of a bother for me, but man this music is bangin'

Infographics: Elevators accidents are very very rare. Also Infographics: *Proceeds to show even more accidents*

I have second thoughts before stepping in an elevator now 😢

@ 0:29 He's praying while holding on to a stranger 😆😅🤣

This actually reminded me of that time in school when I and other students got into an elevator on the ground floor.While we were going up something went wrong which caused the elevator to tumble down and fall back down to the ground floor fortunately we were only by the first floor which was just a floor above the ground floor so no one was injured or anything.Still does scare me thinking about it.

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I don't mind elevators until a certain height. Like about 10 floors or higher is when I start to panic a little

I’ve always had a phobia of elevators when I was a little kid up until the age of 12. Coming back to my childhood fear, it’s now even worse. But I love your videos, keep them up

The worst way to die is getting killed by an enemy while reviving my teammates...

I like how your videos aren’t just on American incidents

"Elevators are safer than driving" Cool, I hope you don't mind, I'm gonna take the stairs and just walk.

i knew there was a reason to hate elevators

I have a friend who thought they were about to die on an elevator. They were coming down from a very tall tower with a glass exterior elevator to be able to see the view and they could see a platform and it seemed like they were going to hit it while going down so my friend started screaming but everyone else was quiet as they went through the platform that had an opening for the elevator which my friend didn’t see (hence the reaction)

The most gruesome elevator video I’ve seen was where a bunch of kids were messing around with the buttons and when it stopped, 2 walked out but one got trapped between the gates and the doors. His body just slowly slipped through the gap. I can’t imagine the aftermath of that accident.

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A worker died in an elevator accident at one of my old schools. From what I heard there was screaming as he was being crushed and many classrooms full of children heard the last cries of the man. The teachers ran out of their classrooms but couldn’t do much except call 911. Really scary and traumatizing for those kids and teachers

That's why if you're in a small building and can take the stairs, that's your better option.

With all the safety devices and safety systems on modern elevators in the United States the chance of a elevator malfunction is still quite slim.

Me being terrified of escalators and being 21 years old and never been down an escalator… relying on elevators watching this 🥲🥲🥲

Last second jump won’t work! During free fall you’ll experience zero gravity! You’ll need to grab on to something to reach the floor, and by “jumping” you’ll be pushing yourself to the ceiling and effectively only delaying the impact a little bit.

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I build elevators and can tell you with 100 percent certainty that elevators are the safest mode of transportation for the general public. It is very dangerous for us who build and maintain them.

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Join us on infographics next week as we show the horrible ways people died in stairwells in an attempt to avoid deadly elevator accidents.

I feel like the engineers have already thought about thhe elvator wires and stuff snapping so they probably have got some sort of system that protects you so you dont get 2 hurt

On my first day of a summer job at a Bronx hospital in 1966 I took the elevator to the ward where I would be clerking, and on the way had a brief conversation with the elevator operator. He was my age (16) and it was his first day on his summer job too. As I got off on the fourth floor he said, "See you later" and I said something polite in reply; I don't remember exactly what An hour later he was dead, crushed to a pulp. He had been helping a patient out of the elevator and apparently it slipped and started to move as he was stepping back into it. At least that was most prevalent story making the rounds of the hospital; there were all kinds of speculation and the real story never filtered down to the non-professional workers. It was a terrible shock as you can imagine. I'd never known anyone my age to die before, and even though I scarcely knew him I was still very upset. I haven't thought about him in decades until I watched this video. He was a nice boy. I wish I could remember his name.

Doing a semi-sequel to this with escalators would be neat. Theres an entire documentary about how dangerous they can be.

If you jump at the end you'd miss the air compression of the final feet before hitting the ground; lying down near the side allows the cube geometry to crumple without springing into you and lets you benefit from the compressing air phenomena, while falling debris piles into the middle.

I’m definitely just gonna take the stairs. I already am too impatient to wait for elevators but especially so now.

Guess I will be taking the stairs from now on...

Someone watching this video in an elevator : "Guess I'll die"

@7:17: That Empire State Building elevator had a buffer, which is a giant shock absorber, at the bottom floor of the shaft. The lady whom was driving that elevator was saved by that buffer along with the accumulating cables. All cable traction elevators have buffers to comply with safety codes.

the thing is that elevators in developed countries have breaking system that lock the elevator in place.. so when the cable rips.. its not too bad, as the breaks immediately kick in and hook the elevator on the leading rails.

Love the cartoon figures Very slick production- thank you

I love this guy. Such a sad topic, and yet he has me laughing. How about you start doing the nightly news?

I love your subject matter is so exciting

Comparing a bathtub to an elevator lol some of the things people say to get out of jams is amazing

I thoroughly enjoyed the humour ridden morbidity of this video. The narrator has the perfect tone of voice for this type of tongue in cheek narrative. I haven’t laughed so hard all week - it’s not the unfortunate deaths that were funny - it’s the narrators exquisite hilarity ridden delivery ‘wot dunnit’ for me. Thank you for cheering me up. More of the same, please! 😅

Well there's some motivation for me to keep fit and take the stairs

A headline in the New York times newspaper lol, no pun intended

*Chuckles I'm in danger* as a Houstonian who frequents elevators

One day I put my hands between the elevator doors so the doors would open fully and my bike could get in but the sensors didn't work for some reason and the doors closed it was crushing my hand for a few second I thought I was going to lose my hand but then the doors opened before the elevator moved

I'm not using any elevators after this video.

Thanks for letting me know (:

one more thing to keep me awake at night thanx

Hey I love your videos

being slided in half from elevator doors is hard to do. If there’s someone in there, they press the open doors button. If there’s no one in there, you have enough time to react before going into the elevator, besides, you have to press a button. If the elevator goes into a free fall whether you are fully in it or halfway, pray. If you’re only halfway in it, you get decapitated. If you’re fully in the elevator, then maybe you’ll survive? If the floor falls out beneath you then uh.

One of the reasons stairs are best

Im from Australia and we just call them elevators not lifts lol

Lol thanks, now I'm going to just take the stairs in buildings from now on 😆 gonna get my steps in extra that way 👍

I haven’t watched yet, but my Educated, on a whim guess is that at least some of them survive. How else would they know that somebody was praying and holding onto a stranger?

I love how there's happy music in the background while it's a brutal concept

Lol The animations get me everytime 🤣