But older escalators – including the one that injured Marcus Soo – aren’t required to have the safety feature, which is known as a comb-impact switch. Now, the state Department of Labor (L&I ...

A safety switch ... the escalator, which was moving downward. The report, citing accounts from first responders, says the boy's fingers were caught where the escalator steps meet the comb plates ...

The defense also contended that the escalator didn’t have to have an additional safety feature known as a “step-comb impact device” because it wasn’t required by code in 1988 when the ...

Sound Transit's light rail station escalators ... comb plate—something everyone must walk over in order to ride the escalator, something that's seeming more and more like a privilege. Impact ...