State public-safety officials recently shut down escalators at a department store in Auburn, Massachusetts, after a 4-year-old Dudley, Massachusetts, boy died in another of the same mall’s stores on March 18. The boy reportedly slipped through a gap at a second-floor escalator and fell 18 feet onto a display case. Authorities did not give a specific reason for the shutdown. Inspectors are rechecking 25 escalators across the state in the wake of the accident.
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