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I’m a bit aggravated with the goofs over at the Gothamist regarding an article they wrote about Elevator Escalator Safety Week and the Safety Rider Progam. What’s even worse is the commentary from the readers of the story. I’m asking that we all chime in and post our own comments regarding why it’s important to promote elevator and escalator safety and why there’s a need for it.  Perhaps a simple search for elevator/escalator accidents online might have turned this article into one with a little more depth and understanding why this kind of information needs to be shared.  So please visit this link and share your own personal comments and stories.   (Pictured: An escalator accident waiting to happen.)

News Links:
Excitement in Jefferson City
Agencies Investigate Governor Building Incident
Board Ok’s Elevator Repair Money
Woman Lied About Gunman
Sex Predator Loose In Harlem
Interesting elevator photo
Award for “tenacious pursuit” of elevator safety
Another cool flicker Elevator photo
Fire Service Overlays – Alliance Elevator Consultants
Space Elevator Games photos  & vids  
KONE sees drop in hydraulic sales
Library overdue
Dogs vs. Escalators, Part 2
Missouri officials to review what led to hostage alert
Bicycles allowed on NY freight elevators
Questions linger after elevator death
Senate honors Sandy the elevator operator
Teen making progress after escalator fall
Stout freight elevator clean
12 Hurt in Las Vegas Escalator Accident
Time waster of the day: elevator farting game
Elevator Escalator Safety Week get’s unnecessary crap! Need help with comments
It’s scarier than hell up here!
SF Museum priceless
Campus takes steps for elevator safety
Escalator advertisements 
Life spans of building systems
Vancouver Transit Elevator/Escalator upgrade
Treasurers fall down steps brings code issues to light
World on edge as Rabbi issues ruling
Escalator Safety Mechanisms Do Work!

Click Here to download ERS-2009-11-11 #179

This week was filled, over 350 articles, covering the exciting news regarding the Space Elevator Games and the tragic death of Drummer Henry Fuch who fell down a shaft after trying to get out of a stalled elevator. This accident could have been prevented had Henry simply stayed put and waited for help to arrive. Remember the safest place to be when an elevator is not working is inside the elevator.  Wait for help to arrive!

These kinds of accidents can be avoided with working door restrictors and longer toe guards. The technology is there, even to retrofit the oldest elevators out there. It’s the balance between elevators being grandfathered under older elevator codes and building owners who can’t afford the upgrades. I’d rather save a life than take my chances with a potential lawsuit.

Listener Links:
Door Restrictors Save Lives
Take The Safety Rider Program Home To Kids You Know

News Links:
Cool Freight Elevator Doors
$900,000 winner in Space Elevator Games
1 Robot fails in Space Elevator Games
Seattle team leads NASA contest
Space Elevator X-Prize Perspective
Space Elevator Games make history!
Space Elevator Blog – The best source for this news
Anonymous student stinks up Gables C-Tower
Contractor seeking damages after falling down elevator shaft
County to vote on elevator repair  
Elevator advertisements
Efficient elevator design
Smoking in an elevator, is it legal? Helloooo, anyone home?
Good article on Space Elevator
Handicapped accessibility disabling Elizabethtown College
Lawsuit to be filed and bill introduced after guide dog injured on escalator
Canada Promotes Elevator Escalator Safety Week!
Walls of screens for latest Sandton mall
Circuit Court elevator out of service for 10 weeks
Our Very Best Cool Vintage Wiring Diagram from the 1900’s
Jerry Fuchs dies after trying to get out of stuck elevator
Escalator Accidents – Important Information
Report citing violations gets rewrite
Another RFP from who knows where
After tragic accident officials teach children elevator safety
Medicash advertising campaign
Woman found dead in elevator shaft

Back to our regular scheduled programming everyone. I’m still swamped but made sure I got all my ducks in a row so I could get the show out today. On the program we’ll give our prize pack giveaway to one of you, cover the news for two weeks and also talk about the calendar of events for November. Something new we’ll be doing includes providing a monthly update of the progress the EESF is making in reaching its goal of educating 700,000 children. There’s a story on this weeks show involving a girl and an escalator accident that just goes to show you why it’s so important to help them reach this goal.  

Thanks to the following companies who have donated goodies to our end of the month prize pack! Fujitec America, GAL, The National Association of Elevator Contractors, The National Association of Elevator Safety Authorities, The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation, COMPANY SRL, Peelle, C.J. Anderson, Truxes, EMS Group, Elevator Bob’s Elevator Pictures, Minnesota Elevator, ElevatorGear.com, ElevatorShack.com, ElevatorU.org, Elevator World Magazine, Elevator Cab Renovations & The Elevator Preservation Blog.

Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar 
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar 
NCEIG Calendar 

Listener Links:
Help The EESF Reach Its Goal

News Links:
A ‘tragic escalator accident’ but what caused it
Mystery over Tube escalator etiquette cleared up by restored film
ATA Space Elevator Project
Video on Piano Stairs
Whom would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with?
Five stuck in elevator at Prior Lake City Hall
Girl falls from escalator at Triangle Town Center Mall – The Reason To Support The EESF
Leona Lewis Stuck In Elevator With 20 Fans
NASA’s Space Elevator Games Challenge Teams
Services must shift for elevator project at Madison Civic Center
Shabbat elevator ruling reignites debate over lift
Texas teen in coma after fall at Indianapolis Mall
Wait ‘til next year, Vesey escalator
When will the CTA rehab Red Line North Stations
Hopes dim for trapped miners
Brief wrap up of World Series Game 3
Five injured on escalator pileup
Brooklyn apartment going for a cool $25 million
Chimney Rock elevator closes for repairs
Denver Pavilion’s Grand Re-introduction
KONE acquires Northeast Elevator Services
Escalator is cited in death at T station – woman strangled by scarf
Rush hour “stair-runners” at light rail stations
Space Elevator Blog does a great job covering games
Six Firemen die in elevator accident - India
FL elevator inspectors missing problems

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-21 #177

Nice short show today everyone. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks and now that the crew I work with is on the mend I feel as if I’m starting to catch whatever the heck was going through our offices last week. Hopefully it won’t go full circle. Next week is our prize pack giveaway, this time we’re just giving away $100 Visa Gift card. I figured we could all use the extra cash or if you’d like to use it for drinking money, you can go that route too. Thanks for tuning into day everyone!

News Links:
Elevatorman Stories – San Diego
10 Year Anniversary of Man Trapped In Elevator for 41 Hours
Board talks YHS Elevator – School fixed up with Stimulus Money
Eagle Elevator Offers Package to Fix Top Seven Elevator Violations
Hong Kong apartment sells for $57 million
Canadian’s deal with accessibility issue
Parcells Hall elevator near completion
Power Efficiency bolsters sales force, management team
Take a look at America’s Strangest Homes For Sale
Space Elevator Games Beaming Competition Set – Nov 2^nd to 6^th  
Unapologetically Mundane – Terror on the elevator
LaserMotive works with REI on Space Elevator
After 2 months elevator soon to be fixed
Elevator installment for Shenzehen Metro Line No. 3 completed
Man escapes smoke filled elevator
New regulations and funding mean California takes lead position  
Otis Elevator Donates To Ronald McDonald House
City parking garage hits snag
Hot Springs landmark received upgade  
KONE 3Q Net Profit Plus 24%
KONE wins major maintenance contract for Stockholm metro
Otis wins contract for landmark development in Seoul
UTC 3Q profit down 17 percent
Ottawa Stair Editorial

Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-14 #176

Another busy week at work as our shop has the flu bug going around which means double duty for a few of us here so remember to wash your hand's everyone and as often as possible. I’m pretty sure that I’m catching it as well as I’m tired and feel the onslaught of being tired and having a sore throat. Another week filled with article's everyone. You’ll enjoy the one written by Jim Collet, from Elevator Man Stories. I think it’s important to remember those who we worked with who may have passed on. Jim does an excellent job at doing this.  Also on the program today a story covering what I believe to be the worst elevator mine accident I've ever read about, in which 26 miners in China where killed.  All I can say I'm glad that I live in the USA where codes and regulations are there to protect workers and the general public.

News Links:
A Different Kind of Larry
7 Sickened Near OC Federal Building Elevator
A sheltered life by design, without TV on the elevator
Space Elevator Official Poster
Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?
Chinese mine elevator plunges workers to their deaths
Fulton Public Library’s elevator project continues
Half Baked Idea – Liquid Only Counterweight for Elevator, no motor required….
Hospitals, Healthcare Providers award bid to Otis
Alliance Elevator Consultants – What’s that grinding noise?
JIA’s central corridor getting $9 million makeover
Can you change the direction of an escalator without a key?
Project to take elevator down
Shabbat Elevator ban is height of controversy
Camden to reopen escalator station
The big exercise boost
Boarding the Chinese Economic Elevator
Elevators being installed in more homes  
Hydraulic Residential Elevator
Space Elevator Games are on!
Jobs for Filipino Elevator Project Manager Abroad
Space Elevator and Lunar Industrialization Conference set for December
Student Ignites Elevator Door
This would keep people off the escalators!  
Crazy building with crazier elevator service
Freight Elevators now allow bicycles on them in NY  - Bike Access Law?
Student Ignites Elevator Door
Escalator mishap injures 13 people at Blues Game  
How to avoid catching the swine flu

Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-07 #175

I’m not sure where global warming is occurring or not but here in Chicago we seem unaffected by it. It’s October 7^th and its windy and chilly. I just hope that winter doesn’t hit with a vengeance. This is the first show of the month and we’ll cover the calendar of events and news of the week. I was surprised at the number of stories I found online today. One story with a tragic ending involved a man in a motorized wheel chair who reportedly died when he drove into an elevator shaft and fell eight stories. As well as this accident we had another escalator handrail slider who is in serious condition after falling over the side of the unit.  Okay, note to self and anyone else who might be reading this. Sticky escalator hand rails not so slippery, keep both feet on step, hold on to handrail and watch step when getting off.  Support the EESF at www.eesf.org and perhaps people like this will be getting an education from their kids who have the chance to attend the Safety Rider Program!

Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar 
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar 
NCEIG Calendar 

Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Elevator Man Stories Blog
Elevator Radio Show Facebook Page – Become a Fan!
ElevatorBob.com

News Links:
A Witness Program for Elevators - NY
Cowboys Stadium Elevator
Delivery man recounts elevator nightmare
Funny Space Elevator Video
Eagle Elevator Installs Systems for the Uniform Elevator Key, FL - Interesting
Elevator and Escalator “Cruise Control”
Elevator or the stairs? In Israel, Rabbis Weigh In
Homework versus Escalator…on purpose or not?
Local Jobs Lost in Keighley as jobs move overseas
RS Elevator Acquired by KONE in LA
Lighthouse Plaza residents protest delay in repair
Mall patrons get trapped in elevator
Man in serious condition after falling over escalator
Reportlinker Adds World Elevators Market Report
Smoke, odor at Hays Elevator caused by overheated motor
Space Elevator Games one kilometer tether finally ready
Work to begin on fixing elevator for handicapped in Stroudsburg
See even firefighters like elevators  
Boy gets toes trapped in escalator
Demolition photos of Yankee Stadium – Lighting & Escalator Removal
Dunn Elevator Traps TA – Read the comments….very interesting!
Detroit man dies when his motorized wheelchair plunges 8 floors down elevator shaft
Interesting Article On Elevator Construction Project at Community College
High Rise Life: Elevator Etiquette  
Hmmmm….Elevatorrules.com – Someone has a funny side and too much time on their hands!
LuLu.com Presents All Kinds of Elevator Books

Click Here to download ERS-2009-09-30 #174

Back from the United Show in Orlando, Florida and still trying to recover from it. I believe that everyone enjoyed themselves and had a great time.  There was so much going on that it was hard to do everything you wanted too.  Lots of great educational sessions, a huge exhibit hall with some great booths.  Plus there were a lot of people in attendance.   I’m putting the show together a night earlier as I have a packed week of playing catch up,  travel and a CEA meeting this Thursday night. Yes I’m looking forward to the weekend! Good show today everyone, it’s been a while since we had some stories with meat on them! (Pictured is another Beer Prize Pack Giveaway from the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Back by popular demand!)

Thanks to the following companies who have donated goodies to our end of the month prize pack! Fujitec America, GAL, The National Association of Elevator Contractors, The National Association of Elevator Safety Authorities, The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation, COMPANY SRL, Peelle, C.J. Anderson, Truxes, EMS Group, Elevator Bob’s Elevator Pictures, Minnesota Elevator, ElevatorGear.com, ElevatorShack.com, ElevatorU.org & Elevator World Magazine.  

Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar 
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar 
NCEIG Calendar 

Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Elevator Man Stories Blog
Elevator Radio Show Facebook Page – Become a Fan!
ElevatorBob.com

News Links:
Analyst sees United Tech profit rising in 2010
Dallas rescuers free 7 people trapped in elevator
Surveillance stings urinator
Upper E. Side Jewel Heists – Thief’s image caught on elevator camera
City to study bike escalator, guess how much it might cost…
CROCS Lawsuit in escalator case settled
Dog OK after getting caught in Harvard Square T station escalator
Elderly woman hurt after falling into residential elevator shaft
Do you guys do this? Talk about elevator accidents when riding them?
EW Recap of United in Orlando - Wednesday
Qatar – Who is responsible for safety? Good Question
Library user says elevator difficult to use on scooter
Balky courthouse elevator draws federal complaint
Disability Perspective: Uber-Ardent Historic Preservationists
Elevator decree takes effect in Japan – Unintended Motion Device
Father and son team arrested for stealing elevator parts
Want to be “Green” Try this Eco friendly elevator…would have been better if it was escalator
Hedge fund executive dies after escalator fall
Man arrested after fall down elevator shaft
Oh boy, read how set designers try to make an elevator….someone please chime in
Where the worst germs lurk…..you know where this one is going
N.C. Firefighters rescue four stuck in elevator

Short show from Orlando, nice and sweet! It’s been great to see everyone who stopped by to say hi at the convention today. I appreciate the warm words many of you have shared about this program. As you all know this is a labor of love for me and I do it with the goal of bringing our industry closer together each week.  I realized this morning why we attend these events, whether they be for CECA, Elevator U, NAEC, NAESA or the NAEC.  It’s about seeing people who we haven’t seen in a while to find out how they’re doing.  It’s about finding out how the economy is impacting our companies. It’s about learning new things through the educational opportunities. It’s about networking with others who either could use a little help or provide a little help. It’s more than the exhibits, it’s more than the education, and it’s about working together as an industry to make it a better one.

Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Elevator Man Stories Blog
Elevator Radio Show Facebook Page – Become a Fan!
ElevatorBob.com

News Links:
Let EW know what you’d like to read about
Rex
This Buds For You
Senior elevator contract awarded
Companies to increase elevator prices Nikkei reports
Escalator Ad used to make NJ government look bad
Is not sitting on Metro a stand for Mothers-to-be
South Koreans do the right thing
The Way We Live Now: Post 9/11
KONE ramps up for 2010 World Expo
Advertising in eastern Europe
Master the “Why Hire Me”
It’s worth the trip, Marriott Marquis
RFP – Elevator Services Contract For University
United Orlando – EW- Sunday 9-20
United Orlando – EW- Monday 9-21
Supercharge your workspace – Good organizing gadgets for your desk

Click Here to download ERS-2009-09-16 #172

Next week many of us will head to the United in Orlando Show for what should be a very busy and productive week.  While there won't be a show next week I do plan on posting a short summary blog post each night so check back Sunday through Thursday for updates.  On the show today two very important stories, one involving a child who got her hair stuck in an escalator when she was sitting on one of the steps. The other from Hong Kong when a construction lift platform gave way killing six.

Have safe travels everyone.

Click Here to download ERS-2009-09-09 #171

We’re back on the air after a three day weekend thanks to Labor Day.  I wish I had one of these at least once a month as I could use the extra day to relax with family.  Not so heavy on the news this week and no accidents, which is always a good thing. Still trying to get ready for the United in Orlando Show as many of you are out there, it is fast approaching, isn’t it? On a side note, do you recognize the logo in the center of the pushbutton plate? We’ve had some excellent help in trying to identify the manufacturer but we’re not 100% sure. Help correctly identify this marking and I’ll send you the Elevator Radio Show t-shirt right off my back!

Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar 
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar 
NCEIG Calendar 

Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Elevator Man Stories Blog
Elevator Radio Show Facebook Page – Become a Fan!
ElevatorBob.com

News Links:
Elevator World Creates New Poll
When somebody holds the elevator door for you
Alleged Rezko tie, but Quinn renames elevator board chair
Elevator coming to Edmonds
Governor Quinn, please appoint people to the elevator safety board
Man charged in upskirting photos – Yes a new word has been invented 
EU court told fines were unjust
Travel to space in an inflatable elevator
11 trapped in PSU elevator  
Boat houses: Luxury condos have private elevators to slips below
Elevator access to Nonpareil limited
Unique Piece of Elevator Furniture For Sale
Elevator at Waterfront’s SeaBus terminal out of service
New elevator dedicated
Hallmark sets two originals  
Very creative blog
Administration building becomes wheelchair accessible 
Church raising funds for new elevator
Recognize the logo on this pushbutton plate?
KONE Seeks Purchases to Challenge Otis, Boost Profit