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 OConnor. Her cause of death has been ruled as traumatic asphyxia, and officials confirmed it was accidental.
OConnor was employed at Boston University, located just down the road from the accident site. According to her faculty page on the universitys website, OConnor was a French lecturer in the schools Romance Studies Department. She also taught at several other local colleges and universities, including Bentley, Northeastern, Tufts, and MIT.
Eric Carmichaels 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 thats 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.
OConnor 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 its 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. Ive 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 shes dead, shes 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 OConnor was posted to BU Today, a publication for the school. In it, OConnors parents remember her as an avid learner, linguist and world traveler. You can read the full piece here.
Few years back, maybe 2 I checked and Elv and Escalator jobs were very secure and highly sought after.
Looks like it hasn’t changed much. Get on with OTIS/UTC or another big corp and just show up, your golden
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Construction-and-Extraction/Elevator-installers-and-repairers.htm
Whatever happened to people that could write a coherent, sensible story?
They went to college and down hill from there
No, I was thinking that as I was reading through it. I was glad to see somebody else had the same reaction.
A possible explanation is that this is a transcription of the reporter blathering on the scene. They almost always sound stupid and disorganized.
“They went to college and down hill from there”
LOL. Then they joined BLM/antifa and all they can do now is screech “F the police. All police are bas&$%@ds, OMG, OMG. Police! I need the police. Medic! Medic! OMG, OMG.”
Way too much information.
Poor soul.
1. She died of asphyxia in a elevator.
2. The elevator was between the basement and first floor.
3. The article is vaguely written when it does not have to be.
It sounds like the elevator failed when she was in the door way, and it fell on her and trapped her.
News writers often leave off gruesome details out of respect for the dead and their families.
That’s more or less my take.
The original writer and the editor need to be introduced to the fine art of ditch digging.
“Way too much information.”
Hence the vague way this article danced around the description of her accidental death.
The guy that found her had to be taken to the hospital because he was in shock.
The elevator I used to ride every day was over a year past the expiration of the last inspection.
Her loved ones must be crushed.
She was also a Hokie
Another possibility —
I work with movers a lot. They will hold or keep pressing the “door open” button to get as much furniture and boxes loaded into the elevator as they can fit.
On some older elevators, if you hold or keep pressing the button too long, a little alarm will sound and the doors will close and sometimes will NOT bounce back, even if you wave your arm in from of them, like they usually will do. If you’re in the way, it’s very scary!
There is a red “hold” button in newer elevators, which works better, you still get the alarm but the doors don’t close.
So She survives Basic Alligator Training & Reptile Husbandry in Louisiana and ends up getting taken out by a Box and an Elevator!?!?!? Maybe She should have taken Mechanical Engineering 101 & an EMS/EMT Course... RIP
that is the WORST written article i’ve read in years...
Yeah, if those are the standards these days I really could have flunked English and done a better job than these dipsticks.
I avoid elevators.
Last summer was hell because of Himself being in hospitals.
Eek.
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