Greetings,
With all the talk about Crocs on this list, I thought some of you might
be interested in this article.
I do not think this will be a problem at Philmont as the last time I
checked, all the escalators were out of order. ;)
Jimmy
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Subject: [TheRailroadList] Got Crocs? Be Careful on the Escalator
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gary R. Kazin <gkazin@yahoo.com>
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Crocs-Escalator-Dangers.html
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Crocs-Escalator-Dangers.html>
Got Crocs? Be Careful on the Escalator
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 18, 2007
Filed at 1:57 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) - At rail stations and shopping malls around the
world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children,
getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems
to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most
popular brand, Crocs.
One of the nation's largest subway systems - the Washington Metro -
has even posted ads warning riders about wearing such shoes on its
moving stairways. The ads feature a photo of a crocodile, though
they don't mention Crocs by name.
Four-year-old Rory McDermott got a Croc-clad foot caught in an
escalator last month at a mall in northern Virginia. His mother
managed to yank him free, but the nail on his big toe was almost
completely ripped off, causing heavy bleeding.
At first, Rory's mother had no idea what caused the boy's foot to get
caught. It was only later, when someone at the hospital remarked on
Rory's shoes, that she began to suspect the Crocs and did an Internet
search.
"I came home and typed in 'Croc' and 'escalator,' and all these
stories came up," said Jodi McDermott, of Vienna, Va. "If I had
known, those would never have been worn."
According to reports appearing across the United States and as far
away as Singapore and Japan, entrapments occur because of two of the
biggest selling points of shoes like Crocs: their flexibility and
grip. Some report the shoes get caught in the "teeth" at the bottom
or top of the escalator, or in the crack between the steps and the
side of the escalator.
The reports of serious injuries have all involved young children.
Crocs are commonly worn by children as young as 2. The company
introduced shoes in its smallest size, 4/5, this past spring.
Niwot, Colo.-based Crocs Inc. said it does not keep records of the
reasons for customer-service calls. But the company said it is aware
of "very few" problems relating to accidents involving the shoes,
which are made of a soft, synthetic resin.
"Thankfully, escalator accidents like the one in Virginia are rare,"
the company said in a statement.
In Japan, the government warned consumers last week that it has
received 39 reports of sandals - mostly Crocs or similar products -
getting stuck in escalators from late August through early September.
Most of the reports appear to have involved small children, some as
young as two years old.
Kazuo Motoya of Japan's National Institute of Technology and
Evaluation said children may have more escalator accidents in part
because they "bounce around when they stand on escalators, instead of
watching where they place their feet."
In Singapore, a 2-year-old girl wearing rubber clogs - it's unclear
what brand - had her big toe completely ripped off in an escalator
accident last year, according to local media reports.
And at the Atlanta airport, a 3-year-old boy wearing Crocs suffered a
deep gash across the top of his toes in June. That was one of seven
shoe entrapments at the airport since May 1, and all but two of them
involved Crocs, said Roy Springer, operations manager for the company
that runs the airport terminal.
One U.S. retailer that caters to children, Mattel subsidiary American
Girl, has posted signs in three locations directing customers wearing
Crocs or flip-flop sandals to use elevators instead of escalators.
During the past two years, so-called "shoe entrapments" in the
Washington subway have gone from being relatively rare to happening
four or five times a week in the summer, though none has caused
serious injuries, said Dave Lacosse, who oversees the subway's 588
escalators, the most of any U.S. transit system.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said escalator accidents
caused more than 10,000 injuries last year, but the agency has few
records of specific shoe problems. Only two shoe entrapments have
been reported by consumers since the beginning of 2006. One reported
in May involved "rubber footwear."
Agency spokesman Ed Kang urged people who have had problems to report
them on the commission's Web site.
Crocs officials said they were working with the Elevator Escalator
Safety Foundation on public education initiatives. But the group's
executive director, Barbara Allen, said that's not true.
Allen said a Crocs official called her in September 2006 about
possible cooperation, even suggesting the company might put a tag in
its shoes with the foundation's Web address. But since that first
contact, Crocs has not called, and nobody from the company will
return Allen's calls, she said.
Washington Metro's Lacosse and other escalator experts say the best
way to prevent shoe entrapments is to face the direction the stairs
are moving, keep feet away from the sides and step over the teeth at
the end.
Lacosse, of the Washington subway system, said he is personally
skittish of Crocs and other soft-soled shoes.
"Would I wear them? No," he said. "And I tell my children not to
wear them either."
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Associated Press Writer Carl Freire in Tokyo contributed to this
report.
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On the Net:
Crocs Inc.: http://www.crocs.com/ <http://www.crocs.com/>
Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation: http://www.eesf.org/
<http://www.eesf.org/>
Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov/
<http://www.cpsc.gov/>
Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey
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