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 ...

Six residence hall elevators, including the one that killed an Ohio State student Friday night, failed standard elevator brake tests. All six elevators were shut down Tuesday and will remain closed.

The elevator that crushed and killed Ohio State freshman Andy Polakowski might have fallen even if it wasn’t packed with 24 students, according to state report released Tuesday. The elevator had a ...

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 ...

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.

"Brake failure" from a lack of maintenance caused the elevator accident that seriously injured a nurse in January at John Peter Smith Hospital, hospital officials said Wednesday. A full report by the ...