I’d like to think that even if your shoelace got caught that either the lace would fail or your fit would fail (and the shoe would come off) before your person got caught, and if not that, hopefully someone would be able to find the emergency stop before you were mortally injured.
But, be careful out there. It’s getting increasingly rare for organization responsible for maintenance and safety to be held meaningfully liable, even though many safety regulations are “written in blood”.
![It got my shoelace [Puddlemunch]](https://lemmus.org/pictrs/image/074eb06f-e5ef-473a-ab1e-76b31df6914e.webp){kind=link}
It’s a good comic, but escalators can kill: https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/27/escalator-death-china-cctv.cnn
I’d like to think that even if your shoelace got caught that either the lace would fail or your fit would fail (and the shoe would come off) before your person got caught, and if not that, hopefully someone would be able to find the emergency stop before you were mortally injured.
But, be careful out there. It’s getting increasingly rare for organization responsible for maintenance and safety to be held meaningfully liable, even though many safety regulations are “written in blood”.
I’m in the union that fixes those and I can tell you it’s a meritless nepotistic swamp and the union is run like a white supremisist gang.
Good to know we are in careful, caring hands. /s
Thanks for being a Union Worker.