Wiring Blamed in Doctor's Elevator Death (Update)

Charlotte Observer ^ | 09/26/03 | Staff Writer

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HOUSTON - Faulty wiring caused a hospital elevator to malfunction, leading to the death of a doctor caught in its closing doors, according to a state report released Thursday.

Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, a surgical resident, died last month after he got on the elevator and the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator began to rise.

Ron Steele, Texas' chief elevator inspector, said a single misconnected wire disabled safety systems that would have kept the door from closing and the elevator from ascending. A final report will be issued by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

A maintenance company had been working on the elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital for four days before the incident. The victim's family is suing Kone Inc., seeking unspecified damages.

Vice president Mike Lubben said Kone still was reviewing the state report but its own investigation concluded that a wire in an electrical panel was incorrectly connected.

"We offer our deepest condolences to the family of Dr. Nikaidoh," Lubben said.

This month, the hospital dismissed Kone from doing its elevator maintenance.

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Original Thread: Man Trapped in Elevator, Decapitated

[BellStar]

Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh was a great Christian who was on fire for Christ. The Dr. is in great company today. Some tried to paint a diferant picture of this man. It did not stick.

[Gunslingr3]

Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh was a great Christian who was on fire for Christ. The Dr. is in great company today. Some tried to paint a diferant picture of this man. It did not stick.

Wonder how he felt about Jesus after all-knowing, all-powerful, and infinitely merciful god pinned him in an elevator and cut off his head...

[isthisnickcool]

Wonder how he felt about Jesus after all-knowing, all-powerful, and infinitely merciful god pinned him in an elevator and cut off his head...

I just popped some popcorn. I'll be sitting over here in my chair watching what happens next on this thread after that post.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Save your popcorn. A comment like that isn't worth expending energy over. Anyone that stupid, is not worth dealing with.

[CheezyD]

Wonder how he felt about Jesus after all-knowing, all-powerful, and infinitely merciful god pinned him in an elevator and cut off his head...

LOL!

[Born Conservative]

"We offer our deepest condolences a blank check to the family of Dr. Nikaidoh,"

[Revelation 911]

Wonder how he felt about Jesus after all-knowing, all-powerful, and infinitely merciful god pinned him in an elevator and cut off his head...

likewise wondering same when He uses the skulls of His mockers as pavers bricks to hell

To answer your question - an assurance of faith and everlasting life in heaven tends to render the physical body of little worth.

.....resume scratching your back on the fencepost

[twigs]

He fortunately knew that His God does not abuse people. Instead, he used his God-given free will to love his Creator. And no doubt he knew that had God not extended the freedom to makes choices to His creation, then the person in charge of the wiring could not have made this mistake. And the doctor could not have freely chosen to follow His creator. Neither the doctor nor God would have chosen to end a life this way, but that said, they are both now thoroughly enjoying the fellowship of the other.

[Gunslingr3]

To answer your question - an assurance of faith and everlasting life in heaven tends to render the physical body of little worth.

Of worth to whom? I guess god's plan = one less skilled surgeon to ease the suffering here on earth. Hallelujah, or somefink.

[Ready4Freddy]

Hmmm, the elevator was ascending.... Koinkydinky? I think not!

[Gunslingr3]

He fortunately knew that His God does not abuse people.

You scratching the whole Old Testament, or what?

Neither the doctor nor God would have chosen to end a life this way, but that said, they are both now thoroughly enjoying the fellowship of the other.

So it wasn't god's plan, god just let it happen anyway? Couldn't he have blown a breaker or somefink and spared this guy's family some misery? Not to mention the countless people this surgeon is no longer able to aid? Seems incongruous. Is he all powerful, but unwilling? All seeing, but momentarily distracted. Or just into seeing bizarre and gruesome things happen?

[Incorrigible]

I'll bring the chips and soda!

[babaloo999]

Sheesh, are you posting from the junior high library today?

[twigs]

None of the above. Yes, He could have thrown a switch. Sometimes He does intervene in these ways. If I could answer why He does sometimes and not others, I would be God. I'm not. It all boils down to faith. Either you believe that He is Who He says He is, or you don't. If He masterminded all these details, then we would be robots. We're not.

[Gunslingr3]

Sheesh, are you posting from the junior high library today?

No, from Heaven.

[babaloo999]

LOL, I hope someone doesn't tell your mommy or daddy what you're doing and get you into trouble.

[Gunslingr3]

It all boils down to faith. Either you believe that He is Who He says He is, or you don't.

Clarification, you believe He is what other people have told you He is. Unless you've been talking to flaming shrubbery yourself.

"A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at its first encounter with the minds of others. Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of independence that he renounced his rational faculty. At the crossroads of the choice between "I know" and "They say," he chose the authority of others, he chose to submit rather than to understand, to believe rather than to think. Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others. His surrender took the form of the feeling that he must hide his lack of understanding, that others possess some mysterious knowledge of which he alone is deprived, that reality is whatever they want it to be, through some means forever denied to him."

[armydoc]

Arguing with the unsaved is a real conundrum. We know that spiritual matters are "foolishness" to them, for spiritual matters are are only spiritually ascertained. Yet, we are commanded to try. Yet another mystery that I look forward to understanding better in Heaven. BTW, the young doctor's death was not a real tradgedy in the scheme of things; by all accounts he was a believer. The real tradgedy is the person who lives a long life on earth without accepting Christ; only to realize after his death that his existance is really just starting. What a horrific proposition.

[twigs]

He revealed who He is in the Bible.