Investigators say an important elevator safety mechanism was apparently turned off when an advertising executive was crushed to death at a Manhattan office building. A mechanic overrode the mechanism, ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --A new report shows the deadly Manhattan elevator accident in December that left a woman dead was the result of basic procedures being ignored by the elevator company Transel ...
Patrick Carr is a known elevator expert in the five boroughs. NY1 met him in Long Island City to find out about a new requirement for every elevator in New York City ...
FREEHOLD, N.J. — A safety mechanism was taped over and not working when two girls were killed in an elevator in a multimillion-dollar home, authorities said. Someone taped over the sensor that would ...