[ST] vators

[Tom Coveney]

    There may well be additional issues to these elevators, than the one 
found by Hobbit. Like the person in Ben's report below I was also hit 
very hard by one of the elevators. The one closest to Ops. This happened 
on the 16th floor, after I had just reported that the one furthest from 
Ops was stuck. As I entered the elevator the doors closed on my hitting 
me on the knuckles on the back of my hand. The door was moving fast 
enough to knock me off ballance (and I'm no lightweight) into the 
opposite side of the door frame. It was also hard enough that it still 
hurts now if touched... So those doors were moving at a pretty good clip.

Benjamin Levy wrote:
>   This is why I'm convinced it's time, not weight that's causing the
> problem.  It takes time for people to get on and off a crowded
> elevator.  That increases the odds that someone will try to leap onto
> the elevator as the door is closing.
>
>   I wonder if the door sensors on elevator 3 are broken.  Monday
> afternoon, I was sitting in the elevator lobby on 1 and watched as the
> door closed as someone was entering the elevator.  The door hit her in
> the shoulder (it hit hard enough to cause her to spill her drink).  If
> the door sensors were working properly, I would assume they would
> notice an adult body standing in the path of the door and/or stop
> before they hit her.
>    ---Ben
>   
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  Tom Coveney
   lensman at mit.edu