SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Do all the buttons in an elevator work? Sometimes it seems like the elevator door stays open forever and there is a "close door" button for just those times, but does the button ...

We’ve all stared at that button in the elevator with the phone icon on it, supremely confident that if the cab came to a screeching halt while rocketing up to the 42nd floor, a simple button press ...

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NEW YORK (CBS) – Pushing that "door close" button won't make your next elevator trip any faster. The head of the National Elevator Industry, Karen Penafiel, confirmed to The New York Times in a recent ...

An elderly man who died in a parking garage elevator pushed the emergency button twice during an 8-minute span on July 6, but got no response despite Denver code requiring elevator operators to ...

Do “self-cleaning” elevator buttons really work? Without rigorous independent studies, experts say it’s hard to verify claims of “self-cleaning” or “antiviral" surfaces that have popped up during the ...

DENVER --An elderly Colorado man found dead in a parking garage elevator had pushed the emergency button twice but got no response, police said. The decomposing body of 82-year-old Isaak Komisarchik ...

DENVER – A missing man who authorities discovered dead in an elevator at a Denver apartment complex last month may have reached out for help by pressing the elevator’s emergency button. Isaak ...

An LSU Hospital employee who is both deaf and mute spent the night stuck in an elevator that also had a malfunctioning emergency call button.The man -- who had no food, water or toilet facility -- was ...

An elderly man who died in a parking garage elevator pushed the emergency button twice during an 8-minute span on July 6, but got no response despite Denver code requiring elevator operators to ...