Always take precaution with escalators, extra so if you're with
a child.
Escalator accident injures 17 in popular Mong Kok shopping mall
in Hong Kong
http://www.todayonline.com/world/escalator-accident-injures-17-popular-mong-kok-shopping-mall-hong-kong
Video of a fatal escalator accident : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B7-Zg7QmMA
sixbells991 commented :
About 25 years ago I worked in the steel industry, deaths by
conveyor belts and mechanical chains like the film above were
fairly well known. You would normally find the persons shoes about
20 meters from the accident, as the pressure from being compressed
would shoot the blood out of their feet and knock their shoes
surprisingly far away from their crushed body.