For example, the Farmington, Connecticut-based Otis Elevator Co., the world's largest elevator company, discovered that its swing-door elevators, mostly installed in apartment buildings, had killed or ...

But she didn't know what many in the elevator industry had known for more than 70 years: that children caught between the doors had been killed and injured before, crushed by moving elevators when ...

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

U.S. children and teens had more than 29,000 elevator injuries serious enough to require hospital visits from 1990 to 2004. That translates to 1,940 elevator injuries in an average year, a new study ...