Sigma Lifts Rival The MRT’s Breakdown Frequency Sigma, the lift company at the heart of the horrifying Yishun lift incident on New Year’s Day, has constantly made headlines in 2017 for endless lift-related issues. Currently, Sigma has installed about 3,500 of approximately 24,000 lifts in HDB estates. That’s almost a 1 in 6 chance that your HDB flat’s lift is Sigma-made. Banned from tendering for new Housing Development Board (HDB) projects since Oct 2015, they’re also responsible for 8 other lift-related mishaps in HDB estates all over Singapore. Here’s hoping that your estate is not one of the unlucky ones. 1. Elderly couple stuck in Yishun lift because Sigma staff lacked spare parts Source A poor elderly couple was forced to spend 2 hours on New Year’s Day trapped in a lift. Sigma staff were unable to restart the lift “because of a problem with spare parts”, according to Channel NewsAsia (CNA). To make matters worse, both seniors had histories of high blood pressure and were beginning to get giddy and pale. Faced with this potentially life-threatening situation, Sigma personnel decided it was a good idea to head to another building to get said spare parts. They were promptly stopped by the couple’s […]
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