Rodrigo Antunes / Lusa
Among Carris’s employees, there was the idea that the Glory Elevator did not work perfectly. However, the survey that morning detected nothing unusual. At issue may be a non -visible piece during the survey.
Surveys in the Glory Elevator are daily. On the day of the accidentWednesday, the visual inspection of the rise to the rise was made between 9:13 am and 9:46 am and, according to, assured that Everything was in conditions.
Apparently normal; Since the cable had only 263 days of use, and should be changed only every 600.
In daily inspection, the maintenance technician goes down the elevator pit and watches the cable during a complete trip, managing to see the entire cable. If there are cable wires parties, vehicles must be stopped immediately. But that day, apparently, everything was fine.
As the morning explains, the “OK” given to this item from the Procedures Manual – which includes nine daily verification items – leaves the possibility that the cable is not departed, but that it has been detached from one vehicle, due, eventually, to some failure to fix.
That is, the problem that would cause the accident may not have been detected that morning, due to a Ask that was not visible during the survey.
The public describes it as the “most likely” failure.
“O grandfather, I don’t like to walk this electric”
As mentioned above, on Wednesday morning, apparently it was okay, in the elevator of glory. However, the public knows that among the carris employees who dealt with the Glory Elevator, There was the idea that the system was not working perfectly.
Small evidence, “only perceived by those who know the material”, indicated that there was Overload problems.
As the morning details, there was a feeling that the Cabinas shook more than in the old days. Furthermore, There was a “collapse” in the operation of the elevator.
Interestingly, in a report made to RTP this Thursday, who lives in Bairro Alto and said using this elevator almost daily, for many years, strangely, reported having felt insecurity by descending the elevatorabout an hour before the accident, which happened at 18h.
“I came down a room for five [da tarde]. I was going to take my grandson to my daughter -in -law, there to Saldanha. AND My grandson, who will be 5 years old said ‘O grandfather, I don’t like to walk this electric’. After an hour, we arrived here and this happened, ”he lamented.
The witness said that, until then, It never felt insecurity In that elevator.
According to the public, the Freight guards also complained about cable“Having even had an incident a few months ago, when the top carriage hit the steps of access to Rua da Misericórdia.”
By 2018, this elevator had already derailed. At the time, there were no dead or injured and the subject did not deserve much attention.
However, according to the public, the roundswhich were well in sight, showed a rude maintenance failure because they were practically smooth.
O verdugo It is the lateral protrusion of the elevator wheel that serves to avoid derailment. Wheels should be turned periodically. However, in the Eight years ago, there was this failure.
Technical knowledge is lost
The externalization of the maintenance activity, attributed by a public tender having as, reduced from 24 to 6 The number of people who were part of the elevator maintenance team of the city of Lisbon.
In addition, permanent maintenance has been replaced by daily surveys.
Several sources of the public also warn of the LOSS OF TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGEas the elders reform. This technical knowledge, shared by engineers and workers, It is lost – Consider – as the activity is done by companies that provide services in contracts of three or four years.
Despite the growing carris speculation, Pedro de Brito BogasHe warned that at this stage it is still early to draw conclusions from the incident.
