My name is Darin Davies; I am a 26 year old male living in Johannesburg South Africa.

Here is my story in short, and afterwards why I have wanted to tell you and why I thought you may be interested.

21st October 2000
Whilst on duty at work in a large 5 star hotel a colleague and myself stepped on to a Mitsubishi escalator. 
As we were about to step off the escalator, the step that I was standing jerked violently. 
Confused, and in agony I shouted out my foot is stuck. Horrified I looked down to see the end of my foot being shredded by the escalator mechanisms. My colleague screamed out for security while I desperately attempted to pull my foot out of my tightly laced up leather shoes. Finally I managed to free my foot, leaving my sock, shoe and shredded toes behind in the teeth of the escalator ramp. Security and my colleague assisted me down the next flight of stairs where I walked out the front of the hotel and caught a cab to the nearest hospital.