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 ...

Brake failure is being blamed for an accident that severely injured a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth earlier this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Texas ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

State inspectors found a lack of routine maintenance and equipment checks led to a brake failure on the elevator that crushed a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital in January, according to a report ...