Woman plunges down empty Starbucks lift shaft
LONDON -- Firefighters and emergency services were called to rescue a woman who fell down a lift shaft in a Starbucks coffee shop, breaking her pelvis and her legs.
The woman, in her 20s, plunged 25 feet to the bottom of the shaft at a Starbucks branch on High Street in Solihull, in the West Midlands, according to the BBC.
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She is now being treated in the trauma centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham but her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
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A spokesman for the West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "Ambulance staff were told that the woman in her 20s had tried to use the lift but when she stepped into the lift shaft there was nothing there and she fell approximately 25ft to the bottom of the shaft.
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"Ambulance staff worked with firefighters to extricate her from the confined space."
“The woman had suffered probable breaks to her pelvis and leg. After being immobilised and had splints applied, she was taken by ambulance to the major trauma centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham for further assessment and treatment.”
A spokesman for the Starbucks branch said they were "shocked and distressed by this terrible incident".
The shop will stay closed while an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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