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Here’s Why Escalators Have Brushes on Their Sides & No, It’s Not to Cuci Your Kasut

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Here's Why Escalators Got Brushes on Its Sides & No, It's Not to Cuci Your Kasut - WORLD OF BUZZ
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Seriously, can you imagine a world without escalators? Having to walk flights of stairs when shopping at your favourite mall is just not something any Malaysian, or any human being alive for that matter, would ever be fond of!

Escalators are so convenient and make something so mafan such as stairs super fun. There are even brushes on the escalator’s sides to clean your shoes with weh!

Here's Why Escalators Got Brushes on The Side & No, It's Not to Cuci Your Kasut - WORLD OF BUZZ 1

Source: Auquonbrush

Or is it, though?

If you’ve been thinking that those brushes are for cleaning your shoes or serve no function at all, then think again!

They actually play an important safety role that many of us don’t know about.

Common escalator related injuries

6yo Boy Suffers Injuries & Bleeds Profusely After His Leg Gets Stuck in Serdang Mall's Escalator - WORLD OF BUZZ

Source: China Press

According to Reed & Mansfield, a prominent law firm in California, escalator injuries are usually caused by:

  • A foot getting dragged between two escalator steps.
  • A foot getting caught between the side of an escalator and a moving step.

Both lead to awful injuries called “degloving” which we do not recommend you to Google image search at all costs!

This is where the brushes come into play, as they will:

  • Discourage people from standing right on the edge of the escalator.
  • Stop clothing and feet from getting dragged into the space between the sides and the steps.

However, the most important reason, according to Popular Science – the brushes were added in place to actually trap hair, dust and other debris, preventing them from entering the gears and making the escalator explode!

Well, that escalated quickly.

Here's Why Escalators Got Brushes on The Side & No, It's Not to Cuci Your Kasut - WORLD OF BUZZ

The worst escalator accident in history

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Source: Telegraph

Escalators were first created and patented in 1892, according to Popular Science. Since then, the design has pretty much stayed the same, until a catastrophe happened in 1987 when a London Underground station escalator exploded, killing 31 people!

The reason?

A huge amount of “fluff”, including bits of paper, lint and even grease was found to have collected inside the undercarriage of the escalator’s machinery!

The extreme friction between the debris and the gears caused a fire and made the escalators explode! Scary weh!

Here's Why Escalators Got Brushes on The Side & No, It's Not to Cuci Your Kasut - WORLD OF BUZZ 3

Source: BT

Since then, modern escalator added safety measures to avoid such catastrophes, such as emergency stop buttons, automatic sprinklers and of course, the deflector brushes.

So the next time you’re on an escalator, don’t be daring and try to have a brush with fate. Avoid using these brushes as a shoe-cleaner, okay!

 

Also read: 5yo Girl Gets Arm Stuck in Escalator & Suffers Skin Tear After She Didn’t Let Go in Time

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