Carl Court / Carl Court/Getty Images A 5-year-old boy has died after his arm was pulled into the gears of a ski resort’s moving walkway over the weekend. Hinata Goto was on a family trip to the city of Otaru, on Hokkaido, Japan’s most northerly main island, when their ski outing took a tragic turn. Authorities say the boy’s right arm became trapped in the winding mechanism of a 30-meter belt-style walkway at the ski resort, The Guardian reported. While his mother pressed an emergency stop button intended to prevent such accidents, the mechanism apparently failed to work. Firefighters freed Hinata—who was unconscious and still wearing ski gear—about 40 minutes after his mother’s emergency call, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to the report. Police said he fell while trying to step off the narrow, 60-centimeter-wide walkway, which lacks handrails and was installed six years ago. One of the resort’s regulars said the contraption—which ski resorts often call a “magic carpet”—was “scary” and had been known to shake when the slope angle shifts. Another worker near the resort told local media that many children come there to practice, urging a full investigation and safeguards to prevent another tragedy. Read it at The Guardian Read more at The Daily Beast.