Of the very small number of people who are killed by elevators, they are almost all elevator technicians / maintenance people who are in the shaft doing repairs and have some kind of accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_accidents
https://www.elcosh.org/document/1232/d000397/Deaths+and+Inju...
here is a tragic death of a child in the US, 2021: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/elevator-...
That's a very different type of injury to what the parent comment was referring to: "elevator crashes", where the car falls to the bottom of the shaft.
The list of elevator accidents is mostly composed of ones involving construction, freight, and mine-shaft elevators.
Yes, that was the kind of incident I was mainly commenting on.
The list of elevator accidents is mostly composed of ones involving construction, freight, and mine-shaft elevators.
I probably should have made a point to qualify what I said above as "passenger elevators in office type buildings" or something. Definitely did not mean to include mine-shafts / construction site elevators, etc.
That said, I don't have the original reference handy, but I recall that where I read that original statistic was a credible source.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/22/video-shows-moment-man-crushed...