Three-yr-old injured in baggage belt incident

New Delhi: A three-year-old child, who had just landed with his parents at Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, was reportedly injured when his hands got stuck in an oversized baggage belt on Tuesday. The child’s father, an Indian Foreign Service officer posted at the Indian Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, was also injured while coming to his rescue.
In a complaint to airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), Sumit Seth, Second Secretary at the mission in Bogota, stated: “... while collecting the baby stroll at the conveyor belt, the hand of my son got trapped between the conveyor belt and the steel rods. There was neither an emergency button nearby to stop the belt immediately nor any personnel on duty. In order to save the entrapped arm of my son, I — along with two-three other persons near the conveyor belt — got injured due to moving of the said belt.”
“The purpose of this letter is to bring to your immediate attention that an emergency stop button must be installed both at the entry and exit of the OG belt, so that incidents like this don’t occur in the future,” it added.
19/11/10 Geeta Gupta/Indian Express

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Categories: Airports Nov 2010, Safety Nov 2010