A man died after being crushed by a hydraulic urinal while working on the device in central London.
Pop-up hydraulic urinals popped up all over central London about ten years ago so that bar revelers could have a place to “go” instead of in a back alley. Women aren’t too happy about urinals in the area, but they pop up at night and go back in the ground during the day into what look like maintenance hole covers.
On Friday, January 27, a man working on one of the devices underground died after a urinal crushed him in Central London during the day. The urinal descended on top of him. He was trapped underground and seriously injured at around 1 pm at Charing Cross Road.
A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said that it took about two and a half hours for firefighters to open the urinal and free the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene later in the day.
Scotland Yard said they notified the unnamed man’s family and the area was blocked off.