SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Imagine being stuck on an elevator for an hour. It happened to one Bay Area woman who is now asking questions about the state's backlog of elevator inspections. ABC7 News I-Team ...

BOSTON (CBS) - It is the state's responsibility to conduct safety inspections on all passenger elevators. But, an I-Team investigation found thousands of elevators in operation with expired inspection ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It took requests by Hotel Zeppelin in 2021 and 2022 as well as calls from ABC7 News for the Department of Industrial Relations to dispatch someone to inspect the elevator ...

WSVN — If you live or work in a building with an elevator, the fear of getting stuck in it is real. Now, what if you lived in a building where the elevators have failed inspections for six straight ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The state is woefully understaffing and underfunding the office that inspects escalators and elevators, a program trusted to ensure the safety of thousands of lifts across the state, a ...

BOSTON - The Department of Public Safety should stop conducting inspections of elevators inside owner-occupied single family residences, inspect certain types of elevators biennially instead of ...

Every passenger elevator in New York City is supposed to undergo a pair of annual inspections but in thousands of cases, elevators are passing those inspections only to be tagged with city-issued ...

Elevator safety in New York is plummeting. Accidents are at a 10-year high, with seven people killed and dozens hurt among 91 mishaps in city buildings from January 2002 through June of this year, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may have been on one of those speedy elevators in the building formerly known as the John Hancock Center. The I-Team learned what inspectors said really happened the night an ...

The Denver Fire Department has begun a new program, conducting elevator inspections in the city in what the department describes as "taking action to address a growing public safety crisis." But a ...

There’s a common saying around the downtown offices of Aileron Communications: Don’t get on an elevator unless you’ve used the bathroom and have a cell phone. “All of my employees have been stuck in ...