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The Consumer Product Safety Commission took a highly unusual step on July 7, 2021. The Commission voted to initiate legal processes to force the recall of a certain line of home elevators. As of this time, at least eight children have been crushed to death in elevator accidents involving home lifts manufactured by ThyssenKrupp Access. Recalls of the type the Commission is attempting to force normally are undertaken voluntarily by a manufacturer like ThyssenKrupp Access. ThyssenKrupp Access is a wholly…

New homes constructed along the Gulf coast as well as on the Atlantic shores of Florida, the Carolinas, and elsewhere, are being built “taller” to provide more resilient protection against storm surge. As a consequence, a significantly increasing number of people are having residential elevators installed in their homes. There is a noticeable downside to the marked increase in residential elevator installations. Unlike their commercial counterparts, residential elevators are subject to little or no regulation. As a consequence, there is…

A freight elevator in a Brooklyn warehouse began to tumble downward in an uncontrolled manner with about 25 people and an undisclosed amount of IT equipment onboard. The emergency braking system did not operate properly, although it did finally kick-in in what was moments before a catastrophic collapse very well may have occurred at the bottom of the elevator shaft. A total of five people were injured in the Brooklyn elevator accident. Two police officers are included among the injured…

Day in and day out, people across the United States ride elevators without giving this type of conveyance much thought. Overall, elevators are considered to be generally safe modes of transport. With that said, every year an alarming number of people are injured and even killed in elevator accidents in the United States. Recently, a tragic Brooklyn elevator accident snared headlines across the city, indeed around the world. One person was injured and another individual was killed in this Brooklyn…

A 38-year-old Boston University French lecturer was crushed to death in an apartment building elevator accident. Carrie O’Connor had only recently moved into the apartment she called home when she lost her life in a bizarre elevator accident when she entered the lift on the first floor of the building. There has been some degree of confusion over how the deadly elevator accident occurred. What is known is that O’Conner entered the building carrying a box of some sort. Another…