Pressing the wrong button cost a colleague's life: An unlicensed elevator worker pressed the wrong operation switch, causing a colleague who was repairing the elevator to be crushed to death. The worker was sentenced to one year of probation.
Report by journalist Fu Zhong: Xia did not have a special operations license but still dared to repair elevators in a residential area. As a result, the elevator was not fixed, and his colleague died after being crushed by the elevator due to Xia pressing the wrong button.
Today, it is reported that Chaoyang Court sentenced Xia to one year in prison for a major responsibility accident, with a one-year reprieve. Xia's supervisor, Wang, was also sentenced to the same punishment.
According to the Chaoyang Procuratorate's indictment, on the afternoon of November 19, 2009, Wang, the team leader of Beijing Yan Yuan Tu Xin Elevator Automation Technology Co., Ltd.'s installation team, hired temporary worker Xia, who did not have elevator operation qualifications, to assist employee Deng in repairing an elevator at Building 10, Zone 1, Anzhenli, Chaoyang District.
Xia, unfamiliar with the operating procedures, made a mistake and pressed the wrong switch controlling the elevator's up and down movement. The elevator car descended, crushing Deng, who was wiring under the elevator car in the pit, to death.
The Chaoyang District Work Safety Supervision and Administration Bureau determined that Xia, knowing he had not received safety education and training and did not have a special operations license, still cooperated with others in the operation, leading to the accident due to operational errors.
After the incident, Beijing Yan Yuan Tu Xin Elevator Automation Technology Co., Ltd. signed a compensation agreement with the deceased's relatives.
Chaoyang Court ruled that Wang, with a weak legal awareness, disregarded safety production regulations, and despite knowing that worker Xia had not received safety education and training and did not have a special operations license, still directed him to perform elevator operations, resulting in a serious consequence of one death. His actions constituted a major responsibility accident crime.
Xia, knowing he had not received safety education and training and did not have a special operations license, still performed elevator operations, causing a serious consequence of one death due to operational errors. His actions constituted a major responsibility accident crime.
Therefore, the court made the aforementioned ruling.