After Trapped In An Elevator premiered last week, we started hearing from viewers who disagreed with one of our on-screen experts about a quirk of elevator operation: the door-close button. Does it ...

He couldn’t pee the consequences. A young boy in southwest China urinated all over the control buttons on an elevator, causing the system to short-circuit and trapping him inside, the South China ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -The same applies to many crosswalk signals and office thermostats. Hold onto your seats, this news is going to shock you. How many times have you pressed the door-close button ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not fun to be anywhere with strangers. But by far the worst situation is the elevator. You’re trapped in a small box, and you have to touch shared buttons to get to ...

My company has a building where the elevator control panel is located well away from the actual elevator bank. There's a bank of 12 elevators labeled alphabetically, and pedestals with numberpads in a ...

BRONX, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GAL Manufacturing (“GAL”), a leading North American designer, manufacturer and distributor of elevator components and systems, and a portfolio company of Golden Gate ...

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 ...

BRONX, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GAL Manufacturing (“GAL”), a leading North American designer, manufacturer and distributor of elevator components and systems, and a portfolio company of Golden Gate ...

Hospital elevator buttons are commonly colonized by bacteria, and have a higher prevalence of colonization than bathroom surfaces, according to research published in Open Medicine. Researchers swabbed ...