On March 26, 2015, a 54-year-old male career fire apparatus operator (FAO) died after falling down an unsecured elevator shaft. The FAO was assigned to Heavy Rescue 14, which responded on the second ...

WILKES-BARRE – The Luzerne County Correctional Facility continues to operate with a single working elevator. County officials are waiting for an inspection on another elevator that was the site of a ...

WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County is now launching a lawsuit of its own against four elevator companies stemming from the 2016 deaths of a correctional officer and an inmate in a elevator shaft at the ...

In the past year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has “stepped up its residential elevator enforcement efforts by recalling 117,100 total units across the U.S. to address an ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – In July 2021, emergency crews were called to a home in the Outer Banks after a seven-year-old was involved in a home elevator accident. PREVIOUS: 7-year-old boy dies in North ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Product Safety Commission is stepping up its enforcement efforts on residential elevators to address an entrapment hazard. The enforcement efforts come in response to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WECT) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced new efforts this week to eliminate deadly hazards from residential elevators. Three leading residential elevator ...