Personal Injury Law

Manhattan Elevator Accident Injures Woman

The New York Times reported in an article on October 30, 2008 that Jolanda Joyce, 28, fell down an elevator shaft shortly after midnight. Fortunately for Joyce she was only on the 1st floor and managed to avoid serious injuries after falling an estimated 5 to 10 feet in this elevator accident in Manhattan. Joyce was on the first floor of a Manhattan complex located on 404 East and 105th Street waiting to take the elevators to go upstairs.

Joyce had this to tell the NY1 cable news channel: ?I turned around to get my phone from a friend and I opened the elevator door and I took a step and I just fell. There was no elevator there.? Joyce was treated for her injuries from the NY elevator accident at St. Luke?s Hospital.

In order to board this old-fashioned elevator, a person must use a handle on an outside door to open the door, doing so allows people to board. Suspensions were handed to the team who had responded to the initial outage report in the building; this according to Tino Hernandez, chairman of the Housing Authority. Hernandez had only this to say about a preliminary review ?revealed that standard procedures may not have been followed.?

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).