Eight Injured in Elevator Fall in City in Kansas

Eight people suffered non-life-threatening, mild-to-moderate injuries as a result of an elevator falling approximately 10 ft to the ground floor of a building in Emporia, Kansas, on September 22, The Topeka Capital-Journal is among outlets to report. The eight people boarded the elevator, where an apartment complex sits above a commercial building, at approximately 12:45 p.m. when “the cable snapped,” the source says, noting an Emporia Gazette report quoting the building’s former owner who maintains the elevator was for freight only “and that a sign was posted in the building for years stating that fact.”