An elevator with a child inside crashed in Chelyabinsk. This was reported by press service Prosecutor’s Office of the Chelyabinsk Region.
Nothing happened to the child. A 12-year-old boy was in an elevator and went up to the 13th floor and fell to the seventh floor. After the fall, the elevator stopped and opened.
The prosecutor’s office began to check the management company and other responsible persons for compliance with housing legislation.
Before that, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction, Housing and Utilities Svetlana Razvorotneva reportedIt is stated that approximately 130 thousand elevators may be stopped in the Russian Federation in 2025.
According to the MP, Russian authorities initially expected to replace about 130 thousand elevators by 2025, but since there was not enough money to implement this, it was decided to postpone the deadline to 2030.
At the same time, Razvorotneva admitted that some elevators that have reached the end of their service life “may not survive” to be repaired.
Formerly a worker in the Leningrad region fallen He fell from the 12th floor into the elevator shaft and survived.