[…] many would walk miles to attend to elevators due to not being able to use public or private transport. The source reports that some were infected and/or died due to these efforts. TAK Mathews of TAK Consulting said, “It is but a small step to urge the world to acknowledge the elevator mechanics, who, […]
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A 7-year-old boy died July 11 after being entrapped by an elevator in a vacation rental home in Corolla, North Carolina, OBX Today reported. EMS and fire department personnel arrived at the home at 7:40 p.m. to find the boy entrapped and without a pulse. The child was freed, and the rescuers began resuscitation efforts but […]
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In a press release issued on July 7 shortly after the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) announced it had filed a lawsuit to order Thyssenkrupp Access Corp. to recall home elevators it manufactured until it exited the business in 2012, TK Elevator (TKE) said the information from CPSC “puts semantics ahead of real attempts…
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[…] became Richard Waygood & Co. on 21 October 1872. The four partners were Richard Waygood, John Marsh Day, William Robert Green and Henry Claude Walker. Richard Waygood died on 5 October 1879, and was buried at Elmers End cemetery, Beckenham Kent. In 1853, Elisha Graves Otis formed the Union Elevator Works, having invented the […]
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Vienna gathering offers mixture of new topics and familiar concepts. In April, the 20th TÜV AUSTRIA Lift Day took place, for the second time, optionally online or in the Museum Quarter Wien Arena 21. Approximately 100 participants (65 online and 35 present) took part. In best times at the Vienna City Hall, the conference had…
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[…] industry of women and fought to make the industry more inclusive. Maureen Barbee called her a “dynamo of our age.” Keith Jenkins, eccentric, “wicked smart,” consultant extraordinaire died in February. He understood the impact of computers before anyone else in the industry. In spite of all that brainpower, he spent an afternoon teaching me […]
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One worker died and another was critically injured in an elevator collapse at a construction site in Mott Haven, Bronx, New York, on May 19, Gothamist is among outlets to report. According to the New York Police Department, the men were loading equipment into an elevator when it fell from the fourth floor at approximately 8:30 […]
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[…] inspectors who don’t use them are doing themselves a terrible disservice.” A more than 45-year veteran of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A17 code development, McCain died at his home in Norman, Oklahoma, on May 11, surrounded by loved ones after a battle with cancer. An ELEVATOR WORLD author who penned many articles […]
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Indiana State investigators with the Department of Homeland Security and the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) are looking into how and why a 67-year-old man died in an elevator accident on April 29 at a Catholic school in Connersville, Indiana, according to a report from 13WTHR on May 3. Investigators say the man worked […]
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[…] Malinois, and Archie, a 12-month-old French Mastiff, are the new police dogs at the Johnstown Police Department. Ripp is the replacement for Titan, a police dog who died last November during a building search. Titan and his partner of six years, Officer Brian Stevens, were on the fourth floor, which had no electricity and […]
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