Worker killed by falling lift at Suvarnabhumi
published : 14 Aug 2024 at 07:24
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
A lift mechanic was crushed to death when an elevator he was repairing crashed down on top of him at Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday.
The accident occurred in the domestic terminal about 1pm. The man was working on the machinery at the bottom of the shaft when the passenger cabin above him plunged down without warning.
The dead man’s family has been informed.
Security guards cordoned off the area. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
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Vocabulary
- cordoned off: stopped from entering an area by putting something such as a rope around it - กั้นด้วยเชือกหรือเครื่องกั้น
- crush: to press something so hard that it breaks into very small pieces - กด บีบอัด
- domestic: inside the country being talked about - ภายในประเทศ
- inform: to tell somebody about something, especially in an official way - แจ้งให้ทราบ
- investigate: to try to find out the facts about something in order to learn the truth about it - ตรวจสอบหาความจริง
- lift: elevator; a machine that carries people or goods up and down to different levels in a building or a mine - ลิฟต์
- mechanic: a person whose job is repairing machines, especially the engines of vehicles - ช่าง, ช่างยนต์, ช่างเครื่อง
- occurred (verb): happened - เกิดขึ้น
- plunge: to fall quickly from a high position - ดิ่งลงมาจากท้องฟ้า
- shaft: a long narrow passage, e.g., one that leads from the surface of the ground down to a mine - อุโมงค์แนวตั้ง
- terminal: a large building at an airport where passengers arrive and leave - อาคารผู้โดยสาร
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