Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elisha Otis invented the first passenger safety elevator - the patent for which can be seen here - 160 years ago Riding in an ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A grocery store worker died while loading produce into a freight elevator Tuesday in Hell's Kitchen. Now, the city tells CBS2 the elevator should never have been in operation.

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, ...

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WASHINGTON, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2021/CPSC-Reminds-Consumers-of-Prior-Warning-Stop-Use-of-Waupaca-Elevators-Until ...

HELL'S KITCHEN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A grocery store employee died inside the supermarket after an elevator incident on Tuesday evening. Police responded to the Food Emporium at 452 West 43rd Street ...

Greg Levenson, vice president of the Local 71 chapter of the International Union of Elevator Constructors, speaks at a press conference on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, accusing Oracle Elevators of safety ...

You probably don't think twice when stepping into an elevator. It's just there, ready to whisk you up to your hotel room on ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it has developed a device that passively controls rope sway when high-rise building elevator sway due to ...

As Hurricane Harvey bore down on Texas in 2017, Jill Renick spent her last moments alive at the Omni Houston Hotel, where she worked as the spa director. At 5:40 a.m. Central time on Aug. 27, 2017, ...

Gwangju City is implementing a "carbon-neutral elevator" project aimed at reducing electricity costs and achieving greenhouse gas reduction. On July 25, Gwangju City signed a "business agreement for ...