[…] of entrapments in NYC. There are 60,000 elevators in NYC, and most incidents are minor. Some, however, including the 2011 incident in which a female advertising executive died, have raised alarms. Senator John Bonacic, the bill’s sponsor, said there were more than 70,000 people involved in elevator entrapments to which the NYC Fire Department […]
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[…] true Horatio Alger/rags-to-riches story.” In fact, the “Columbia” name itself could not be more rooted in NYC: Blaiotta, Sr., chose it in honor of his father, who died in a hoistway lift accident at upper-Manhattan’s Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and added a nod to his father-in-law, who was an NYC police officer and president […]
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[…] architect, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York, had a background in church design with Gothic influences, apparent throughout his design. Construction began in 1922, and though Goodhue died only two years later, his vision was diligently created on a pay-as-you-go system. In 1932, after an investment of US$9.8 million, the building was ready to […]
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[…] of Bornova Olgun Atilla. The connecting theme of the speeches was work safety, which was particularly timely given the September 6 Istanbul accident in which 10 workers died after a builders’ hoist on which they were riding plunged 32 stories. Chamber presidents drew attention to the importance of periodic elevator inspections in their speeches, […]
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[…] records of their maintenance work, came in the wake of a pair of escalator accidents a few years ago in which several people were injured and one died. Despite Washington’s elevators outnumbering escalators considerably, the lion’s share of accidents takes place on escalators: between 2008 and 2014, there were 318 accidents with injury on […]
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[…] Manufacturing Corp. and doors from The Peelle Co. I was hired as an assistant to Henry Kieckhefer, Jr. and put in charge of the parts stockroom. He died from a heart attack within a year, and a new superintendent was hired. I began doing repair field surveys to provide material lists and equipment summaries […]
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[…] responding to fires, reversing an earlier directive advising them to cautiously use them, the New York Daily News reported. The directive came several weeks after an officer died as a result of injuries he received in a housing-complex elevator while responding to a fire. Another officer was hospitalized as a result of that incident. […]
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[…] safety concern,” said Fred Majiwa, Nairobi-based spokesman for St. John Ambulance. “The number of cases we have been attending to is appalling. At least four people have died because of these accidents in 2013.” In one incident, a lift technician died and two of his colleagues were seriously injured when they fell from the […]
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[…] in the elevator industry. Marie McDonald entered the world in a remarkable way and has stood out ever since. She was born in Seattle, and her mother died in childbirth. At only 10 days old, she went to live with her grandparents on their Sonoma, California, chicken ranch. “So I guess I am about […]
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[…] between the top of the car door and bottom landing door. The injured man was transported to a hospital, but his injuries were too severe, and he died several days later. A post-accident investigation revealed that the elevator’s braking force was insufficient, and that the balance coefficient was smaller, because once the car had […]
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