It’s now confirmed that a broken elevator played a key role in Cincinnati firefighter Daryl Gordon’s death, and fire department officials say they’re considering calling for a citywide ban on the ...

WILKES-BARRE — Elevators are equipped with hardware that’s supposed to prevent the doors from swinging in and out at the bottom like dog doors, which happened during an incident that led to two ...

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NEW YORK – Five elevator mechanics who were on duty when an advertising executive was crushed to death were fired Wednesday, two days after city investigators said a key safety system was disabled ...

It’s an open and shut case: You’re not crazy if the “close door” button you’ve been madly jabbing has done absolutely nothing to make those elevator doors shut. Odds are it hasn’t, according to Otis ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Wednesday, Grand Rapids Fire Department responded to a call in a parking garage near Spectrum Butterworth Hospital. A person was stuck inside the elevator shaft, with their arm ...

An alarmingly common elevator repair shortcut nearly killed a Brooklyn woman four years ago — and the mechanic who used it may now end up behind bars. After a two-week criminal trial, a jury last week ...