As our country wound down from World War II, the recently immigrated Blaiotta family suffered its own tragedy when its patriarch died in a 10-story fall while repairing a construction hoist in New York City (NYC). And so, when the patriarch’s orphaned son went on to forge a multigenerational involvement with the elevator industry, […]
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Hilti Corporation, Principality of Liechtenstein This paper was presented at USA 2012, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 19, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of Elevator Engineers (website: www.elevcon.com). This paper is an exact reprint and has…
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The Lift expo is incorporated into the broader-scoped MADE expo in Milan, Italy. The Italian lift and escalator industry suffers. It is no secret that in the last four years, new construction petered out in the peninsula, and growth has been flat, at best. This reflects in the order books of lift manufacturers, both large…
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[…] to produce an accurate chronology of the events. Knight, the deceased, was 26 years old and had been in the lift industry for approximately two years. He died on September 22, 2010, while performing routine work. Knight had been vacuuming in the pit. The engineer he was working with had left the area to […]
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[…] been fundamentally solved, some serious safety accidents still occur. In August 2011, an elevator accident in Xiamen, China, occurred due to failure of the brake. One person died, and another was wounded. A follow-up survey found the brake shoe had not closely jointed on the surface of brake wheel in braking time. When the […]
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A global overview of various elevator regulations Elevator inspections and certifications are performed in different ways around the world. With the globalization of the elevator market, challenges arise when local manufacturers want to export to another part the world. At the same time, local authorities have to deal with foreign-certified products. Liftinstituut is both a…
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[…] memorial are completed. The National September 11 Memorial, which has been completed, consists of two fountains, surrounded by bronze plaques engraved with the names of those who died during 9/11. These two fountains sit on the exact footprints of the towers that were destroyed. And among the trees that surround the fountains, the “Survivor” […]
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[…] victims under the rubble. Erci s¸ , a town near Van, was the hardest hit by the violent shaking: at least 55 buildings were destroyed, 45 people died, and 156 were injured in this town alone. Most of the buildings that collapsed along the town’s main road were residen-tial, raising the number of fatalities. […]
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[…] in the company’s manufacturing area, assembling elevator landing doors and erecting elevator cars. During his university breaks, Hütter helped install, modernize, repair and maintain elevators. His father died when he turned 24, and though Hütter hadn’t finished his MBA from the University of Hamburg, he started working part time at Hütter-Aufzüge. Upon graduating from […]
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[…] Japan National Police Agency (NPA) had confirmed 15,650 deaths, 5,699 injured and 4,977 missing across 18 prefectures. Of the 13,135 fatalities re-covered by April 11, 12,143 (92.5%) died by drowning. Victims aged 60 or older accounted for 65% of the deaths, with 24% of total victims being in their 70s. As many as 100,000 […]
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