An elevator mechanic's failure to execute basic safety procedures caused an elevator at a New York City building to plunge six stories and crush a co-worker to death, prosecutors said Tuesday.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An elevator suddenly ...

Alan Mann, 35, an executive vice president at Aon Corp., an insurance company, squeezed into an express elevator packed with 25 people evacuating the south tower. He was the last person in. The doors ...

SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A freight elevator partially collapsed with approximately 25 people inside on Monday morning. The incident was reported at a building on 34th Street shortly after 10 ...

CHICAGO -- Six people who were rescued from an elevator in the former John Hancock Center, one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers, later learned they had dropped 84 floors after two elevator cables ...

There are few offenses in business worse than challenging the validity of the near sacred “elevator speech,” that one-minute message verbalizing the unique qualities of what a salesperson does or ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them ...