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Elevator Company Fires 5 Workers In Connection With Horrific Fatal Accident
The elevator company accused of negligence in the horrifying death of a Madison Avenue ad executive has fired five employees.
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John Del Signore
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Elevator Workers Allegedly Ignored Basic Procedures Before Fatal Accident
A damning new report alleges that elevator maintenance company Transel is responsible for the horrific death of an advertising executive in a Madison Avenue office building.
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John Del Signore
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Elevator Maintenance Caused Ad Exec's Horrific Death, Official Says
Officials say it's becoming more apparent that the freak elevator death of ad executive Suzanne Hart last month was connected to maintenance work done on the lift on the morning of her death.
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John Del Signore
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Elevator Company Implicated In Horrific Accident Ignored Rules, Sources Say
The elevator company being probed in the freak death of ad exec Suzanne Hart did not follow basic rules governing elevator maintenance, sources tell DNAinfo.
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John Del Signore
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Building Where Woman Was Crushed In Elevator Had Elevator "Epidemic"
According to newly revealed Department of Buildings records, the old elevators at 285 Madison had bugs galore
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John Del Signore
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Fitness Trainer Partially Paralyzed In Elevator Freefall Files Lawsuit
A fitness trainer who was badly injured in a freak elevator accident in November has filed a lawsuit against the landlord of his building and two elevator companies—and, yup, one of the companies is Transel.
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John Del Signore
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Fatal Elevator Accident Company Faces Eight Other Injury Lawsuits
A building super says that he fell into a Transel elevator shaft because the elevator wasn't there when the doors opened.
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Jen Chung
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Elevator Company Connected To Freak Accident Being Sued Over Previous Incident
reporters are digging into Transel's track record: Turns out another woman has sued the company after being injured in a somewhat similar accident.
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John Del Signore
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Elevator Was Being Worked On Hours Before Freak Death
Investigators trying to determine what caused Wednesday's horrific elevator death in a Madison Avenue building are focusing on a maintenance company that was working on the elevator hours before the malfunction.
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John Del Signore
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