USA TODAY identified about 100 people who escaped from inside 29 elevators at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. In most cases, the doors were open at the moment the jets hit or opened automatically ...

A six-year-old girl has been crushed to death in an elevator accident at a hospital in the Mexican coastal resort of Playa del Carmen. The girl had been hospitalized at the medical facility suffering ...

DALLAS (WFAA) – A Texas woman made it to the hospital just in time to give birth to her baby on Mother’s Day, but did not quite make it to the delivery room. That’s when a security guard stepped in to ...

Elevator use on the fireground has become increasingly necessary and more common as our built environment’s challenges continue to grow. Unfortunately, tragic mishaps took place that killed and ...

On the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, USA TODAY is republishing articles published in 2002 for the first anniversary. Content warning: This story ...

Failing elevators at a veterans hospital in Miami have injured at least a dozen people over two years, according to a nurses’ ...

Health care providers should avoid talking about specific patients even when members of the public or patients are not present. A lot can happen in a hospital elevator. Perhaps that is why elevator ...

On the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, USA TODAY is republishing articles published in 2002 for the first anniversary. USA TODAY identified about 100 ...