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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Metro officials came under attack Monday for their handling of potentially dangerous escalators after the revelation that an independent assessment had warned of a widespread risk of escalator brake ...

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 ...