Chicago elevator incident: Lift carrying passengers plunges more than 80 floors as hoist rope breaks

An elevator inside Chicago’s former Hancock building dropped 84 floors before trapping six people inside, local news outlets reported. Rescuers arrived shortly after the fall early Friday morning to cut a hole in the building’s wall and free those inside. The accident unfolded at in the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly known as the John Hancock Center and
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Coroner: 38-year-old father dies in elevator fall in downtown Lexington building A 38-year-old man fell down an elevator shaft to his death Thursday in a building under construction in downtown Lexington, according to the Fayette County coroner. Travis Collins fell 14 to 16 feet at the work site at about 1:30 p.m., said Coroner Gary
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Schindler forms robotics research collaboration with Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Today Schindler announced the debut of its breakthrough Robotics Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E), paving the way for greater automation and digitalization in the elevator industry. With its autonomous and self-climbing robot, this prototype solution allows the safe and high-quality installation of
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Schindler Group, the second-largest shareholder of Hyundai Elevator, has officially filed for an investor state dispute settlement against the Korean government seeking US$300 million in compensation for losses over its approval of paid-in capital increase of the Korean lift maker from 2013 to 2015. According to the Ministry of Justice on Oct. 15, Schindler has
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Two construction workers are dead after falling down an elevator shaft in downtown St. Louis. The accident occurred inside the Old Shoe Company building in the 1500 block of Washington Avenue around 11:15 a.m. Monday. City of St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards told reporters at the scene the victims were cutting pipe when
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The Jiading Schindler City – our incredible new campus in China – has achieved the highest certification under the internationally recognized LEED environmental standard. “We are particularly proud to have received this outstanding certification”, says Thomas Oetterli, CEO of the Schindler Group. “It proves again that our motto “Thinking ahead. Acting today.” is a commitment
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Hyundai Elevator Breaks Ground For New Shanghai Plant South Korea’s Hyundai Elevator Co. has broken ground for a new plant in Shanghai that is expected to help the company expand its presence in China, with a significant ramp-up in its annual production capacity in the world’s largest elevator market. The Korean company said on Wednesday
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Thyssenkrupp opens high speed Test Tower as part of new plant in Zhongshan, China. The opening ceremony for the plant signifies thyssenkrupp’s continued investment in China and innovation and R&D around the world The test tower is one of the highest in the world at 248 meters and will test high-speed and rope-less elevators Today,
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KONE Corporation, press release, March 15, 2018   KONE Corporation, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has won an order to provide energy-efficient KONE MonoSpace® 700 elevators for the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) project owned and designed by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Canada. Construction of
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Company, which pleaded guilty to four summonses, could have discovered safety issues with escalator three months before malfunction, court told. Otis Elevator Company (HK) was fined HK$320,000 (US$40,800) on Friday after it accepted responsibility for an escalator accident that injured 18 people in one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping malls last year. Kowloon City Magistrates’
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