As we mentioned in a previous piece, climbing down a flight of stairs is one of the most mundane activities that carries inherent dangers that we often overlook. We also mentioned reports from law firms, which reveal that over one million people sustain stairway injuries in the United States each year.
A well-designed staircase should minimize the likelihood of bodily harm, but the photos you’re about to see are the exact opposite. We lifted these from a growing subreddit where 15,000 people share images of the worst stairs you likely wouldn’t want to set foot on.
Feel free to scroll through, and hopefully, you won’t develop a bad case of vertigo after you’re done.
#1 No Room For A Staircase
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#2 Stairs At The Local Gay Club That Lead Down From One Bar To Another Bar
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#3 In Peru
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Let’s shed more light on the cases of stairway injuries, this time in the UK. According to a September report by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF), nearly half of adults, or 43%, have either slipped, tripped, or fallen down the stairs in the last 12 months.
Sixty percent of people who had experienced a staircase accident stated that it happened on their own property.
#4 Hope This One Will Count For The Sub
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#5 For When You Want To Make Your Life Just That Much Harder
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#6 Looks Like A Trap
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The report also revealed that 32% of accidents were linked to broken safety features, such as poor maintenance. 40% were due to slippery surfaces, 32% were due to poor lighting, and 29% were because there were items along the stairs.
Then, there were the structure-related issues, with 26% of injuries occurring due to uneven steps and 26% due to the lack of handrails.
#7 I Was Helping A Family Friend Move And Found These
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#8 My Sisters Landlord Wanted To Improve The Accessibility, So Added These Planks
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#9 The Stairs Up To The Kids Loft In My Beach Rental For The Week. They Shake When I Walk On Them. Fun!
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However, not all staircase accidents were due to poor design. According to BWF chief executive Helen Hewitt, people are also at fault and are putting themselves at risk by using their phones while on the stairs, carrying something heavy, or rushing up or down.
“While a clear reflection of today’s busy lifestyles, these behaviours increase the risk of a slip, trip or fall, which could result in serious or potentially fatal injuries,” Hewitt said.
#10 They Look Normal Far Away
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#11 I Hate Going To The Theater
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#12 I Guess We’re Gonna Have To Feel Our Way Down These Stairs
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Reports indicate that stairway accidents result in an average of 12,000 fatalities per year. There are several ways to reduce this risk, and according to the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), one of them is to design handrails that are easy to grasp.
Specifically, you should be able to run your hand smoothly along the entire length without needing to adjust the grips.
#13 A Quick Slip To The Beach
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#14 New Floors At My Job
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#15 Airbnb Insanity
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The CCOHS also urges improving visibility on staircases. This can be achieved by utilizing angular lighting and color contrasts to enhance depth perception and incorporating matte finishes to minimize glare.
Patterned carpeting isn’t advisable because it can create a visual deception and hide the differences in depth of each step.
#16 Special Ramp For Wheelchair Users
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#17 This Occurs Every Winter At My Hometown.. The Sing Says No Winter Upkeep And Yes They Lead Strait To River Bank
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#18 Stairs In A Century House I Toured!
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#19 Curved, Yet Rhomboidal
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#20 Stairs At My Hostel
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#21 For Design
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#22 I’m Not Even Sure How I Will [Get Hurt]
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#23 Stairs
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#24 At Least They’re Colorful
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#25 High Heels? Or Barefoot?
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#26 Sure, They Look Nice
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#27 Stairs With Handholds
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#28 Should There Be Two Railings?
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#29 The Stairs At My Friends House
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#30 The Stupid Carpet On These Stairs!
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#31 Seriously?
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#32 Stairs At My Friend’s House
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#33 One Misstep Is All It Takes
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#34 Smooth As A Pebble
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#35 The “Ankle Twister”
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#36 Malerweg Mountain
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#37 Staying At The In-Laws
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#38 The Stairs Down In My Local Movie Theater
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#39 Stairs In My Friend’s Flat
The colour and lighting make them blend into each other on the way down. Absolute nightmare while carrying a suitcase.
And now I’m thinking while posting this – what on earth was the point? You’re not saving any space by doing this
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#40 Not My Picture But Thought It Belonged Here
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#41 Going To A Bar In Finland
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#42 This Belongs Here
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#43 Just To Smoke, With My Broken Ankle I Have To Traverse This Nonsense
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#44 “Honey, I Installed The New Stairs!”
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#45 One Wrong Move And You’ll End Up In The Hospital
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#46 Do These Count?
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#47 The What?
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#48 Steady…
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#49 Nearly 90° Stairs Leading To The Backstage Area Of My Latest Stand-Up Performance
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#50 The Last Step
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#51 Camouflage Stairs From Above
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#52 Carry Chair Extrication Anyone?
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#53 Can Break A Leg Just Looking At These Stairs
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#54 Just Why?
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#55 Just Saw This
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#56 The Closer You Look The Worse It Gets
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#57 “Beatiful And Sturdy Stair” It Says In The Listing
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#58 Rippling Ribbon Staircase
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#59 You’re Given A Throne…
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#60 Bachelorette Party Airbnb
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#61 Even Fell Down These Stairs Once
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#62 Hold The Walls?
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#63 Location: Havanna, Cuba. Level 9/10 (Gets Wet When It Rains)
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#64 Fun!
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#65 Friend’s Loft. It Jiggles And Shakes When You Walk On It
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#66 Tight Squeeze?
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#67 Looks Like Stools
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#68 This Is Sooooo Terrible
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#69 These Stairs In This Flipped House
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#70 There’s Nothing Like Relaxing In Bed…
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#71 These Glass Stairs My Dad Was Faced With At Work
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#72 The Less Snowy Bits Are Glazed Over
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#73 I’m Sure They Are Fine
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#74 Nice…but I Could Still Use A Railing
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#75 By Windex
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#76 Those Are Stairs
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#77 To The Attic Of A House Built In 1902
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#78 Weird Perspective?
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#79 Hidden Stairway
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#80 High Turnover Apartments
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#81 Do These Count? Not Steep But I Tripped Multiple Times
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#82 Thought It Was A Ramp…
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#83 Wet ‘N Wild
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#84 Head Trauma
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#85 That Is A Slide
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#86 Unique
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#87 The Original Plan They Paid For On The Second Pic
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#88 Make Your Day A Little More Interesting
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#89 Airbnb Stairs
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#90 Tower Of Babel
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#91 Slice And Dice
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#92 That’s Quite The Step Down
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#93 Don’t Cut Yourself
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#94 Around And Around And Around
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#95 Storage
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#96 If Maps Didn’t Mislead Me, This Is A School Building In Alghero, Sardegna
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#97 Stairway To 💀
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#98 Just No With These Stairs
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#99 Just Grab The Toilet Paper Roll Railing
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#100 What In The…
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#101 Glass Staircase, Go’o Shrine, Designed By Hiroshi Sugimoto
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#102 A Thousand Cuts
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#103 You Can See When You’re Going!
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#104 Knock, Knock
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#105 Somebody Suggest I Share My Girl Here Too…would You Walk These Stairs?
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#106 Combo
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#107 They Need A Sign
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#108 Chicago Slip And Slide
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#109 It Ain’t Much, But It’s Something
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#110 Inside A 200-Year Old Home In Japan
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#111 Long Invisible Steps
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#112 Quality Craftsmanship
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#113 Holiday Cottage; We Feel Slightly Threatened
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#114 Definitely Colorful
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#115 Heavy Duty
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#116 Old Dutch House
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#117 Never Make Assumptions
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#118 Hmmm This Doesn’t Look Right
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#119 For Those That Like To Play Hopscotch
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#120 Staircase In Our Last Airbnb House
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#121 At Least You Fall Into The Lake?
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#122 It’s A Gamble Everyday
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#123 Trip Right In…or Out
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#124 Hybrid Stairs
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#125 Stairway To Heaven
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#126 Just Spotted On A Zillow Listing
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#127 Does The Tape Prevent It From Being Dangerous?
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#128 Does It Go Up Or Down?
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#129 This Looks Safe
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#130 What The…
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