Weeki Wachee, Florida -- A woman was killed in a tragic accident at a home in Weeki Wachee after she was crushed by a homemade elevator. Hernando Sheriff's deputies say the "lift", or homemade ...

A Tampa Bay-area woman was crushed to death by a friend's homemade elevator. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office reports that Margaret Harrison, 66, went to her friend's Weeki Wachee home Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON — A 7-year-old boy was crushed to death by an elevator at a vacation rental home on July 11 in North Carolina. Police say he was playing a game of hide and seek and got trapped in between ...

A 7-year-old boy’s death on the North Carolina coast could spark a change in state law. Weston Androw was killed on the Outer Banks last month in a residential elevator accident. An elevator that, by ...

Federal safety regulators have recalled a slew of residential elevators over the years because of potentially deadly risks to children, and September is proving to be a case in point, with three such ...

Elisha Otis invented the first passenger safety elevator - the patent for which can be seen here - 160 years ago Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business - until Elisha Otis, of Otis ...

Shortly after a young boy was crushed to death by an elevator inside a vacation home in North Carolina last month, federal regulators turned to vacation rental companies for help. They asked firms ...