elevators
Whiz kid: Boy pees on elevator buttons and starts fire
A young Chinese boy was rescued after being stuck inside an elevator and starting an electric fire by urinating on the buttons. In another caught-on-camera moment from December 2020, two drunk...
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice gets trapped in elevator at mansion
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice was trapped in an elevator at his home this week — and needed a team of rescuers to free him, his office said.
Man trapped for four days in elevator at NYC shelter run by Cuomo's sister
A broken elevator at a Manhattan homeless shelter run by ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sister trapped a man inside for as many as four nights before he was finally rescued by the...
Teenage athlete crushed to death in freak elevator accident
An Atlanta teenager was killed in a freak accident when an elevator malfunctioned and pinned him between two floors of an apartment building.
Video shows people trapped in elevator as floodwaters rise
Nebraska man Tony Luu and two others nearly drowned as neck-high floodwaters engulfed the elevator of his downtown Omaha apartment building, video shows.
UK mom says store's broken elevator forced wheelchair-bound daughter to crawl
Ann-marie Yönetci said her family suffered a "humiliating experience" at a sporting-goods store where a broken elevator meant her wheelchair-bound daughter had to "crawl on the floor."
7-year-old killed in freak elevator accident in North Carolina vacation home
A 7-year-old boy was killed in a freak elevator accident inside a home his family was renting on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, officials said. The child was pinned between the...
Construction worker killed, another critically hurt in Bronx elevator plunge
The accident left an older man dead on the scene and the younger man was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he is listed in critical condition.
Elevator packed with law enforcement officers collapses in Brooklyn
The lift with the officers inside -- some from the NYPD -- failed at around 10 a.m. at the Industry City building in Sunset Park, an NYPD spokeswoman said.
Shares of elevator maker Otis Worldwide pop on COVID-19 rebound news
A large maker of elevators, escalators and moving walkways is seeing worldwide demand bounce back so fast following last year's COVID slump that it's increasing its dividend by 20 percent....
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Woman, 72, pepper-sprayed, robbed in Brooklyn elevator
A 72-year-old woman was pepper-sprayed and robbed in a Brooklyn elevator Sunday morning, cops said. The woman was in the lift at 1024 Montgomery St. in Weeksville around 11:30 a.m....
Man crushed to death by elevator in Brooklyn apartment building
A man was crushed by an elevator in a Brooklyn apartment building Friday afternoon, cops said. The fatal accident happened just after 1:15 p.m. in a Prospect Park building on...
Elevator kills mechanic in the Bronx
An elevator fell on a recently married mechanic in a Bronx building Thursday morning — killing him, police said. The 25-year-old was working on the lift in an apartment building...
'Q' answers the call: Meet the MTA's first ever Chief Accessibility Officer
The city's former transportation accessibility czar starts as the MTA's first ever Chief Accessibility Officer on Thursday after a brief stint in the private sector where he landed in hot water...
Daughter of NYC grocery worker killed by elevator 'in disbelief'
The Manhattan grocery store worker fatally crushed by an illegal freight elevator while on the job was a hard-working single mom of four whose death leaves a void just before...
Elevator that crushed NYC grocery store worker was illegally installed: officials
The freight elevator that fatally crushed a worker at a Manhattan supermarket on Tuesday was illegally installed, according to officials. "This tragic incident shows just how dangerous unregistered, illegally installed...
Woman falls down elevator shaft to her death at Manhattan supermarket
An employee was crushed by a freight elevator at a Midtown Manhattan supermarket on Tuesday afternoon, authorities and police sources said. The woman, 39, was found around 4:10 p.m. at...
Elevator crash! Drunk duo survives falling down shaft
Down the hatch? Two visibly intoxicated men fell through a closed elevator door — and into the shaft — at a hotel in Quanzhou, China. Both men suffered minor skin...
Why elevator etiquette has New Yorkers at each other's throats
"She was so nasty in her tone, I just barged in."