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[Cyalaytr]

Man Trapped in Elevator, Decapitated


HOUSTON (AP) - A surgical resident was killed when an elevator malfunctioned and decapitated him, authorities said.

Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, was stepping into a second-floor elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital Saturday morning when the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator car moved upward.

A hospital employee witnessed the accident and spent about 20 minutes trapped inside the elevator before firefighters rescued her. She was treated for shock in the hospital's emergency room, hospital spokeswoman India Chumney Hancock said.

Harris County medical examiners were conducting an inquiry into the accident. Police said earlier that maintenance crews had worked on the elevators during the week.


The entire elevator bank was pulled from operation until the investigation is complete.


Nikaidoh graduated in 2003 from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.


Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

MAN that would suck having to sit in an elevator with a headless body for 20 mins. Specially it being someone you knew.

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[SHATOUSHKA]

i thought she was in the elevator with the head...
not the body... as he was entering the elevator

either way... i'd freak out [img]eek.gif[/img]

[KingBean]

I think it would be worst if he was walking IN, but the head ended up outside and the body inside...!

[SHATOUSHKA]

i wonder if he was freaking out... screaming and
begging to god and all...

i think if i were the witness to all that jazz...
i'd have to go into rehab

[imaslave4junior]

yucckkk thats why im scared of elevators

[zelazny]

man... being stuck in that elevator after just seeing a colleague decapitated, with the head inside... That poor person.

[GravyTrain]

Imagine the body was inside and the head outside....then imagine watching the head fall from the body after being severed from the neck.....and hitting the floor with a loud "plop" or "thud" whatever noice a falling head would make....i think that would be more disturbing.

[Cyalaytr]

Well as long as it wasnt like a chicken and ran around either on the outside or the inside until it fell over dead. ICK I would be screamin like a lil girl.

[SHATOUSHKA]

i know this is going to sound really silly....

butta... i've been on elevators before... even
industrial ones (backdoor elevators at hospitals
and warehouses)....

i er.... well.... i just don't see why the
elevator would close and not re-open due to
an obstacle. granted, it said that they were
working on the elevators that morning.... but
still.... wtf went wrong????

[SHATOUSHKA]

secondly... do you think this deserves a darwin award? [img]redface.gif[/img]


(i do)