The apartment building where firefighter Daryl Gordon died Thursday was more than five decades old and showing its age – and the elevator door may have contributed to the tragedy. City building ...

DECATUR, Alabama - The death of a man who was crushed by an elevator while working at Decatur Morgan Hospital was ruled an accident, the Alabama Department of Labor said in a report released Tuesday.

What the heck? There is supposed to be a sensor on the bottom of the door (safety interlock) which will detect if the elevator strikes an object and reverses the door causing it to retract to the full ...

An alarmingly common elevator repair shortcut nearly killed a Brooklyn woman four years ago — and the mechanic who used it may now end up behind bars. After a two-week criminal trial, a jury last week ...

The city official who inspected the elevator door that led to Cincinnati firefighter Daryl Gordon's death last year dismissed residents' claims that the door had malfunctioned in the past, according ...