A federal appeals court panel ruled 3-0 that OSHA's lockout/tagout standard does apply to a June 2009 incident in which an Otis service technician suffered a hand injury while repairing a freight ...
Otis Elevator rolled out its newest application of internet technology Tuesday as it turns to digital operations to reduce elevator maintenance and repairs that are costly to customers and ...
PORTLAND, Maine — In a settlement with the family of an 8-year-old boy crushed to death in a 1929 elevator, Otis Elevator Co. promised Thursday to retrofit its old elevators with a safety guard and ...
Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business — until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope broke. It ...
The OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY can trace its origins to 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Convention in New York City. His invention ...
On Sept. 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first “hoist machine,” or elevator, featuring an automatic safety brake he had patented. His seemingly simple invention was designed to stop a platform ...
In Bristol, Conn., just a 9 iron from the campus headquarters of ESPN, in a valley near a historic amusement park, a strange white tower is the only building sticking up into the sky. Hawks nest in ...
SEATTLE, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new, double-deck glass elevator from Otis opened for its first rides to passengers Friday as part of a new experience at the iconic Space Needle. Visitors to ...
Otis elevators are in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building at 2,722 ft. Image © Emaar properties. But it was Otis' elevator that would allow for ...
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