Finnish elevator company Kone has launched a program to support profitable growth, which will result in reducing about 1,000 employees worldwide, the company said on Tuesday. The program is aimed to accelerate the execution of its Winning with Customers strategy to support profitable growth, issued at the beginning of 2017, announced Kone in a press
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Late on Thursday, a video of the moment a Saudi man saved a child who was hanging from the top of a mall escalator went viral on social media. In it, the child, who seems to have been left unattended, is seen walking towards the escalator. He then reaches out and puts both his hands
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The worker, from China, reportedly made a mistake while working on the lift The elevator suddenly went up, which caused the man to be trapped in a gap Rescuers saved him within minutes after arriving and took him to the hospital A Chinese engineer has been saved after getting himself trapped between a lift and the
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A huge alligator stunned supermarket shoppers by walking to the store and heading down an escalator – but he didn’t make it out alive. The store which only just re-opened after renovations was full of staff and visitors when the animal took a walk. The captive-bred animal had been bought by the shopping centre’s owners from a farm and had been
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A male is dead following an industrial accident in the elevator shaft of a downtown building. The incident occurred at a building near St. George and Russell streets just before 10 a.m. Paramedics say that the male was pronounced dead on scene. A second person sustained minor injuries in the accident and was transported to
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KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has won an order to supply 112 elevators and escalators to Guangzhou Panyu Guangsheng Wanbo City, a mixed-use development in the Wanbo Central Business District planned to include commercial, office, hotel, and residential space.KONE will install 26 KONE MonoSpace® elevators and 38 KONE MiniSpace® elevators,
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Man was working at a building in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and Oriole Road A man has died after an elevator accident at a building under construction in midtown Toronto on Friday afternoon. The man was working on a job site in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and Oriole Road
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Anew mother was reportedly killed shortly after giving birth by being ‘chopped in half’ by a lift. The family of the 25-year-old mother-of-three have spoken of how she was being carried out on a stretcher when the lift malfunctioned and she was cut in two. Rocio Cortes Nunes was reportedly travelling from the second to the third floor
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A 22-year-old construction worker died after falling 20 feet down an elevator shaft at a Midtown job site Friday, police said. The worker fell two stories to the basement at 281 Fifth Ave. at E. 30th St. about 9:40 a.m. Medics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he later died, officials said. Source: nydailynews.com
DENVER (AP) — An elderly Colorado man found dead in a parking garage elevator had pushed the emergency button twice but got no response, police said. The decomposing body of 82-year-old Isaak Komisarchik was found last week after multiple residents of a Denver apartment complex reported a terrible stench. Elevator repair workers found the body.
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