Berlin: Man dies in an accident with a paternoster elevator

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Man dies in accident with paternoster elevator in Berlin

A person died in an accident with a paternoster elevator in Berlin on Thursday. As reported by the Berlin fire brigade, the accident happened in a commercial building in Schöneberg. As the RBB reported with reference to a fire department spokesman, the accident victim is said to be an older man. Shortly before 1:00 p.m., the man got caught in the wheelwork of the paternoster between the first floor and the ground floor and was fatally injured. He died at the scene of the accident. There was no further information about the cause of the accident.

In 2015, the Federal Council overturned the paternoster ban

The technical term for a paternoster lift is a passenger circulation lift. The name suggests how it works: Two cabins arranged in parallel are operated in constant circulation. Boarding and alighting takes place during the journey, and a complete circumnavigation is usually possible without danger. In 2015, the Federal Council overturned a planned amendment to the so-called Operational Safety Ordinance (der star reported). According to this, the public use of paternosters should be prohibited. Only employees in buildings with elevators, often authorities or other public institutions, would then have been allowed to use the elevators. As of 2015, around 250 paternosters were in operation across Germany.

Sources: fire brigade Berlin, RBB

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