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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people in Louisiana board an elevator without a second thought. The certificate means it’s been inspected, it’s safe. Right? Not so much, according to the world’s largest elevator manufacturers.

Charles County, Maryland Delegate C.T. Wilson said his elevator inspection safety bill would be introduced into the General Assembly on Tuesday. Delegate Wilson said the bill had been changed since he ...

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, ...

BATON ROUGE — A proposal to create a statewide elevator inspection system for Louisiana started advancing today in the Legislature, winning support from the Senate Commerce Committee. Louisiana ...

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 ...