(NEXSTAR) – Perhaps no button on Earth is mashed as furiously as the “door close” button in an elevator. The button, usually denoted by a set of arrows pointing inward, is a favorite of impatient ...

For most of their half-day shifts, Bill Dreisbach and Bob Johnson sit in a hot, virtually empty office on the virtually empty third floor of downtown Allentown’s Farr Building, waiting for a buzzer to ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Otis Elevator Co. has converted hundreds of old-style elevator doors whose design has been linked to multiple deaths and injuries over decades. The company launched a national ...

Otis Elevator Co. has converted hundreds of old-style elevator doors whose design has been linked to several child deaths and injuries. The company launched a national campaign to retrofit the doors ...

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