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 ...

The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) has issued its first administrative penalties against a condo corporation ...

A mechanic overrode the mechanism, a safety circuit that normally prevents elevators from moving with their doors open, to enable work on the midtown Manhattan elevator about a half-hour before an ...

The Department of Buildings announced that owners of private homes with both registered and unregistered elevators can request a DOB inspection of the device with no penalty for the next 90 days. The ...

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 ...

Suzanne Hart, a Madison Avenue advertising executive, was killed late last year in a terrifying elevator accident that a new report says should have been prevented, confirming earlier criticisms of ...

Advertising executive /*Suzanne Hart*/ was killed last December when her leg became caught in the door when the elevator rose suddenly, dragging her between floors. Buildings Department officials have ...

NEW YORK – An important elevator safety mechanism was turned off when an advertising executive was crushed to death trying to take the lift to her office, city investigators found in a report released ...