In the past year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has “stepped up its residential elevator enforcement efforts by recalling 117,100 total units across the U.S. to address an ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – In July 2021, emergency crews were called to a home in the Outer Banks after a seven-year-old was involved in a home elevator accident. PREVIOUS: 7-year-old boy dies in North ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Product Safety Commission is stepping up its enforcement efforts on residential elevators to address an entrapment hazard. The enforcement efforts come in response to ...

The CPSC said Thyssenkrupp Access' elevators were installed with a "hazardous gap" The agency said children can get trapped in the "excessive space" A 2-year-old child died in 2017 in an elevator ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Elevators sold for residential use nationwide since 1986 are being recalled because young children can get trapped in the space between the doors. The recall involves several ...

On March 26, 2015, a 54-year-old male career fire apparatus operator (FAO) died after falling down an unsecured elevator shaft. The FAO was assigned to Heavy Rescue 14, which responded on the second ...

DECATUR, Alabama - The death of a man who was crushed by an elevator while working at Decatur Morgan Hospital was ruled an accident, the Alabama Department of Labor said in a report released Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WECT) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced new efforts this week to eliminate deadly hazards from residential elevators. Three leading residential elevator ...

Three companies that sell in-home elevators have announced voluntary recalls over concerns that children could become trapped inside and face serious injury or death, federal regulators announced ...