Chances are, if you live in the United States, you’ve been in an elevator at least once in the last month.
Chances are, if you live in the United States, you’ve been in an elevator at least once in the last month.
Elevator accidents are one of the rarest forms of accidental death, causing fewer than 30 deaths across the nation each year.
Last December, a 22-year-old man reportedly walked into an elevator shaft when the elevator doors opened, assuming the elevator would be there, and fell onto the car that had stopped just a floor below him.
The frequency of elevator accidents is more common than you would think. With roughly 600,000 elevators across the nation it makes sense that people ride elevators every day - to gain access to apartments or work, or even during their commute to work.