Citing the death of a Williamsburg resident who tried to flee a broken elevator earlier this month, organizers for the union representing elevator repair workers spoke at a community board meeting ...

What goes up must come down...and may wind up at the bottom of an elevator chamber. One Redditor posed the question "what is the weirdest thing you have found at the bottom of the elevator chamber?" ...

An elevator mechanic's failure to execute basic safety procedures caused an elevator at a New York City building to plunge six stories and crush a co-worker to death, prosecutors said Tuesday.

NEW YORK — An elevator mechanic has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with a man’s death in New York City two years ago. Peter Milatz, 67, was charged after his apprentice mechanic, ...

A mechanic was crushed to death yesterday by the passenger elevator he was trying to repair at Lincoln Hospital, police said. John Neary, 29, of Saddle Brook, N. J., was in the basement of the Bronx ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An elevator mechanic's failure to execute basic safety procedures caused an elevator at a New York City building to plunge six stories and crush a co-worker to death, prosecutors said ...

Five mechanics involved in the botched elevator-repair job that killed an ad exec in Midtown have been fired, their bosses said yesterday. Michael Hill, accused by city investigators of bypassing a ...

Charles County, Maryland Delegate C.T. Wilson said his elevator inspection safety bill would be introduced into the General Assembly on Tuesday. Delegate Wilson said the bill had been changed since he ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Five elevator mechanics who were on duty when an advertising executive was crushed to death were fired Wednesday, two days after city investigators said a key safety system was ...

A mechanic was crushed to death by an elevator inside a luxury Upper West Side high-rise Friday morning, police said. The 30-year-old elevator repairman was pinned between two lifts and pronounced ...