Posted on 09/16/2020 11:25:12 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
BOSTON — A woman was killed in an accident involving an elevator in Boston Monday evening. Emergency crews flooded the area outside the building at 1140 Commonwealth Avenue shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday. At the scene, authorities told Boston 25 News that they had been responding to reports of a woman trapped.
On Tuesday evening, nearly 24 hours since the accident, officials identified the victim as 38-year-old Carrie O’Connor. Her cause of death has been ruled as traumatic asphyxia, and officials confirmed it was accidental.
O’Connor was employed at Boston University, located just down the road from the accident site. According to her faculty page on the university’s website, O’Connor was a French lecturer in the school’s Romance Studies Department. She also taught at several other local colleges and universities, including Bentley, Northeastern, Tufts, and MIT.
Eric Carmichael’s wife heard her cries for help.
“She heard a woman in distress and tried to help her out as a neighbor," said Carmichael.
Carmichael says his wife saw the woman attempting to put a package onto the elevator.
“The lady was trying to put a package into the elevator, like that’s how we do it," said Charmichael.
Police later removing a large and long brown box from the building. They moved it out front at first, leaning it on a mailbox and then took it away.
O’Connor was a resident in the building. Neighbors told Boston 25 News Tuesday she had just moved into the building a few weeks ago.
“Five feet in front of my door is the elevator so it’s very creepy,” said Foskit.
Foskit says the building manager told him the elevator was stuck between floors.
“All that he told me was that [the elevator] was currently between the first floor and the basement," said Foskit. “[The elevator has] always worked fine. I’ve been here over a year and never had any issues with it.”
People who live at the address were shocked by what happened. Nevada Foskit was waiting out from for more than 90 minutes to get back into his home.
“I heard just an ungodly scream and we ran into the hallway and saw a gentlemen who was in distress screaming and hyperventilating and saying she’s dead, she’s dead," a woman who lives in the building, and who did not want to be identified, told Boston 25 News. Boston Police is investigating and OSHA has also assigned a team to figure out what happened.
According to tax records, the building dates back to 1920. The building had recently been inspected and was certified.
An obit for O’Connor was posted to BU Today, a publication for the school. In it, O’Connor’s parents remember her as an avid learner, linguist and world traveler. You can read the full piece here.
You must be fun at parties.
“Foskit was waiting out from for more than 90 minutes to get back into his home”.
People in the building complained that the water tasted funny, iirc, or they’d might never have found her.
Whatever happened it’s a terrible thing to happen to anyone. Unless they are Antifa or ChiComm, etc.
New episode of 1,000 ways to die.
He tried to lam, but the cheesed him.
The elevator was stuck between floors...
Building manager said in the article that I posted...
Scariest thing I ever saw on TV.......her peeking out.
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Yikes!
I haven’t had a TV for decades. I am referring to their online news articles I see posted here and elsewhere.
So it wasn’t just me.
Thanks for the link, it makes sense now.
Back in 1999, the wife of an employee at my company was a patient at a local hospital. She was killed in an elevator accident when she was being transported from one floor to another. She was on a gurney that was being moved into an elevator and when it was only half way in, the elevator suddenly rose. She was caught between the car and the shaft wall.....
https://apnews.com/ccb3eefcee3efe4f47311af0caa92bab
omg
I think you are closer to telling what happened than the article was.
The traumatic asphyxiation may have to do with when the object complicated the cables and got stuck between floors, where she may have forced the door open between the floors, stuck her torso in to push a button to advance the carriage, and the down button accidentally got pushed, crushing her torso between the threshold and upper interior ceiling of the carriage.
Just my guess.
FReegards!
Call me crazy but that “technique” just begs for a disaster.
Gruesome way to go.
Thinking the same thing. This is the type of horrific accident that probably kills one person a century.
Seeing that she was in academia, she may well have been liberal or progressive. However, I don’t care what party she belonged to or how she planned on voting. Her death is horrible and tragic. I’m sure her family will be forever changed. I will pray for them tonight.
Who the HECK is writing these articles?
They OBVIOUSLY have never been reviewed by a proofreader, nor an editor!
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