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Internal briefing planned over decapitation death
01:55 PM CDT on Monday, August 18, 2003
Associated Press
HOUSTON - Officials at a downtown hospital continued their investigation Monday into the death of a surgical resident who died when he became caught in an elevator's doors and was decapitated.
Christus St. Joseph Hospital officials said they may release additional information about Hitoshi Nikaidoh's death after a closed briefing Monday, said hospital spokeswoman India Chumney Hancock.
Nikaidoh, 35, of Dallas was stepping into a second-floor elevator about 9:30 a.m. Saturday when the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator car moved upward. A female hospital employee witnessed the accident and spent about 20 minutes trapped inside the malfunctioning elevator until firefighters were able to rescue her.
The traumatized employee who witnessed the death was taken to the hospital's emergency room for treatment of shock, but was released later that day, said Hancock.
Photographs and measurements of the elevator by Houston police crime scene specialists were passed to Harris County medical examiners. The entire elevator bank where Nikaidoh was killed was pulled from operation, but St. Joseph Hospital officials said the decision won't affect patient services.
"They'll be shut down indefinitely until we've completed our investigation," Hancock told the Houston Chronicle in Monday's editions.
Police said maintenance crews had worked on the elevators during the past week.
Nikaidoh graduated in 2003 from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 1992-1998 and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/081803dntexdecapitated.1a2af7ca.html
a friend of mine knew him.... it's just like Final Destination 2! it's pretty scary.......
01:55 PM CDT on Monday, August 18, 2003
Associated Press
HOUSTON - Officials at a downtown hospital continued their investigation Monday into the death of a surgical resident who died when he became caught in an elevator's doors and was decapitated.
Christus St. Joseph Hospital officials said they may release additional information about Hitoshi Nikaidoh's death after a closed briefing Monday, said hospital spokeswoman India Chumney Hancock.
Nikaidoh, 35, of Dallas was stepping into a second-floor elevator about 9:30 a.m. Saturday when the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator car moved upward. A female hospital employee witnessed the accident and spent about 20 minutes trapped inside the malfunctioning elevator until firefighters were able to rescue her.
The traumatized employee who witnessed the death was taken to the hospital's emergency room for treatment of shock, but was released later that day, said Hancock.
Photographs and measurements of the elevator by Houston police crime scene specialists were passed to Harris County medical examiners. The entire elevator bank where Nikaidoh was killed was pulled from operation, but St. Joseph Hospital officials said the decision won't affect patient services.
"They'll be shut down indefinitely until we've completed our investigation," Hancock told the Houston Chronicle in Monday's editions.
Police said maintenance crews had worked on the elevators during the past week.
Nikaidoh graduated in 2003 from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 1992-1998 and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/081803dntexdecapitated.1a2af7ca.html
a friend of mine knew him.... it's just like Final Destination 2! it's pretty scary.......