Last week, a 37-year-old man was crushed to death when trying to escape a stalled elevator at a luxury rental apartment building in Brooklyn. Now, an elevator in another section of the development has ...

Brake failure is being blamed for an accident that severely injured a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth earlier this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Texas ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A newly-released state report concluded that brake failure is to blame for an elevator accident that critically injured a nurse at Fort Worth's John Peter Smith ...

Ninety minutes before an elderly tenant died in a lurching NYCHA elevator, the agency was warned that the lift was behaving erratically — but did nothing, a scathing new report released Tuesday found.

State inspectors found a lack of routine maintenance and equipment checks led to a brake failure on the elevator that crushed a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital in January, according to a report ...

The elevator that plunged three stories Wednesday morning, injuring 22 people in the fall, had a defective brake, NBC New York has learned. The Department of Buildings investigated after the crash, ...

Late inspections and faulty maintenance of an elevator brake at the Crockett Hotel were the likely reasons why a housekeeper fell to her death in an elevator shaft last year, according to a scathing ...

A faulty emergency brake system caused two accidents in a downtown office building that left two injured, one seriously, in recent months, the building's owner said Wednesday. Governors part of the ...

Ever since the idea of vertical transportation by elevator, or lift, was conceived, the very next step was going to be ensuring it was reliable. New designs need to fit within the constraints of the ...