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CHICAGO (CBS) — Do you carefully watch where you step every time you get on an escalator? A 7-year-old suburban boy, whose first love is hockey, wonders if he’ll ever play again after a freak accident on an escalator at Midway airport.<\/p>\nCHICAGO (CBS) — Do you carefully watch where you step every time you get on an escalator? A 7-year-old suburban boy, whose first love is hockey, wonders if he’ll ever play again after a freak accident on an escalator at Midway airport.<\/p>\n
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine says it might have been preventable had the escalator at Midway, like those at O’Hare, met the most recent safety recommendations.<\/p>\n
State of the art, when it comes to escalator safety, is a thin strip of brushes running up and down alongside the moving steel steps of an escalator.<\/p>\n
“It’s a warning,” the injured boy’s family attorney said of the brushes. “If it’s not lubricated, your foot gets sucked in like that.”<\/p>\n
That’s what happened to young Anthony Rosalia, who had come to Midway with his parents. Holding his mother’s hand, riding down this escalator which didn’t have those brushes. <\/span><\/p>\n Or, the family says, the slippery surface now recommended.<\/p>\n “We’ve inspected the escalator,” attorney Martin Dolan said. “And it’s our opinion based on that inspection that it was not properly lubricated, at a minimum.”<\/p>\n About a third of the way down, Anthony’s sneaker caught between the stair and the side, and literally ripped apart; the steel stair then cutting into his foot.<\/p>\n A doctor saw it happen, hit “emergency stop”, and rushed to help, or it could have been even worse.<\/p>\n “He has catastrophic injuries to his foot,” Dolan said. “It’s very likely there could be amputation of certain parts of his foot. He’s a little hockey player and he’s dealing with the fact that he may never play hockey again.”<\/p>\n Chicago’s Aviation Department spokesman says it’s the first accident ever on Midway escalators.<\/p>\n She points out that the escalators at O’Hare have already been fitted with the deflector brushes, aimed at preventing injuries.<\/p>\n Nationwide, thousands of children are hurt on escalators every year; most from falls, but many when hands, feet or clothing become trapped.<\/p>\n While the Department of Buildings’ report on this accident “found no violations,” Dolan says the city and its contractors dropped the ball.<\/p>\n “These are simple precautions to take particularly at a major airport in a major city with so many passengers every day,” Dolan said.<\/p>\n CBS 2 is told the first of the deflector brushes will be installed on escalators at Midway airport this weekend.<\/p>\n Too late for Anthony, who still has nightmares, his mother says, and is now watching Olympic hockey on TV, hoping someday he’ll be able to get back on the ice.<\/p>\n CBS 2 Political Producer Ed Marshall contributed to this report.<\/p>\n Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n CHICAGO (CBS) — Do you carefully watch where you step every time you get on an escalator? A 7-year-old suburban boy, whose first love is hockey, wonders if he’ll ever play again after a freak accident on an escalator at Midway airport. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine says it might have been preventable had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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