JOHANNESBURG—An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at the end of the workers’ shift at a mine in the northern city of Rustenburg. The injured workers […]
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was attacked in an elevator inside her Washington, D.C., apartment building, according to a statement from her office on Thursday. “Rep. Craig defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay,” Nick Coe, her chief of staff, said in a statement. There is “no evidence” the […]
JERUSALEM—Installing an elevator doesn’t normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city’s history. But in Jerusalem, even seemingly simple construction projects can lead to archaeological endeavors. Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have made numerous discoveries, including an ornate first-century villa with its own ritual bath, after a project began to […]
A woman was rescued from a New York City elevator on Jan. 28 after being stuck inside all weekend. The Fire Department of New York responded to a building on the Upper East Side in the Manhattan borough just after 10 a.m. on Monday and freed the woman. She was stuck in an elevator between […]
Seventeen commuters were trapped in a subway station elevator in Brookyn, New York, for about an hour before first responders arrived to help them climb out. Talia Kovacs told the New York Post that after the button to call for help was pushed, the group was not told how long help would take to arrive. […]
