WASHINGTON — A 7-year-old boy was crushed to death by an elevator at a vacation rental home on July 11 in North Carolina. Police say he was playing a game of hide and seek and got trapped in between ...

The typical range for home elevator costs is $2,724 to $6,076 with a national average of $4,237. Cost factors for home elevator installation include equipment, labor, site preparation, number of ...

It was the finishing touch on Michael and Brandi Helvey’s Georgia dream house: an elevator to accommodate Michael’s mother, who was in her 80s and living with them downstairs. The National ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Elevators sold for residential use nationwide since 1986 are being recalled because young children can get trapped in the space between the doors. The recall involves several ...

It was lunchtime when 2 1 / 2-year-old Fletcher Hartz opened the door to the elevator at his grandparents’ home in Little Rock. His mother, Nicole Hartz, stood a few feet away in the kitchen making ...

For Residential Elevators, the Tallahassee-based manufacturing company's name succinctly describes what it does. And its CEO says the business now is rolling out new products that will revolutionize ...

Ann McGee loves her home. If you saw it, you would understand. Every room of the 2,800 square-foot Mediterranean-style house in Winter Park, Fla., reflects her well-traveled life, her many friendships ...

In the past year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it has “stepped up its residential elevator enforcement efforts by recalling 117,100 total units across the U.S. to address an ...

It was lunchtime when 2 1/2-year-old Fletcher Hartz opened the door to the elevator at his grandparents' home in Little Rock, Arkansas. His mother, Nicole Hartz, stood a few feet away in the kitchen ...

When the Otis Elevator Co. started manufacturing a machine that safely lifted people up multiple stories in a building, the value of urban real estate jumped. A patch of land was once limited by a ...

Three companies that sell in-home elevators have announced voluntary recalls over concerns that children could become trapped inside and face serious injury or death, federal regulators announced ...