Elevators/Lifts

20 trapped in Tokyo Skytree elevator for 5 hours, tower to close on Feb 23 and 24

An aerial shot of the Tokyo Skytree, which towers 634 metres above ground.

More technology, higher pay draw younger and more Singaporeans to lift industry

Award recipients of the inaugural Lift and Escalator (L&E) Excellence Awards Mr Ganesh Prasad Vasudevan (left), a troubleshooter at KONE, and Mr Muhammad Zulkarnaen Hashim, a senior L&E specialist at Hitachi Elevator Asia.

Elderly man in China built a lift to get home, but had to tear it down after video went viral

The lift, that resembled a cable car with a seat and a few buttons inside, worked on a pulley system that linked the man's apartment to a lamp post across the street.

Forum: Accessibility an important part of inclusivity

Worker dies after being struck by steel beam while fixing lift at Tuas shipyard warehouse

Mr Tanvir Hasan Khan, 44, was dismantling the guide rail for the cargo lift’s door when a connected steel beam dislodged and hit him.

Bali hotel workers die after lift cable snaps, plunging them into ravine

The workers were killed when the steel cable supporting the lift suddenly failed, plunging them 100m down a steep embankment.

Elderly woman in India dies after lift plunges eight storeys

Postwoman dies in Uzbekistan after being trapped in lift for 3 days

The lift was said to have stopped working due to a power cut.

Forum: Long wait for lifts for wheelchair users

‘Why did it take so long?’ Marsiling Rise residents to finally get lift upgrading

ST20230113_202343235921/yflift/Ryan Chiong
A resident of Block 119 Marsiling Rise at the lift landing.
Block 115 and Block 119 Marsiling Rise will undergo lift upgrading after 95 per cent of residents voted in favour of the project at the two Housing Board blocks. Currently, the lifts at the blocks stop only at the first, fifth, ninth and 12th storeys.

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