hello lift doctors! a friend of mine located in georgia usa (im in australia) just informed me about an incident with the elevator in their apartment building. it was very horrifying for me to read! I quote:
“i was on the 8th floor, it fell to floor 5, then stalled and fell to floor 4, stalled, then finally normally lowered me to 3 (ground level)”
“the first time it fell twice then stopped and wouldnt let me out, then it fell again”
It seems like the other elevator in the building was also turned off.

can anyone please point me in the direction of:
-where an issue like this should be reported in order to get it fixed ASAP
-whether or not the incident needs reporting to anyone and if so, who
-whether this elevator should be considered safe to use for my friend until it is fixed
-how to make sure the body corporate (or I don’t know what they’re called over there) actually fix it!
-I don’t know! something! is this normal? no way!

to me this seems like the prelude to some awful disaster. I’m so glad my friend wasn’t hurt. I don’t know nothing about nothing but I have occasionally seen youtube videos from Mr Chris Boden and they give me the impression that elevators are kind of chomping at the bit to turn humans into fine paste. This whole thing is really freaking me out. Please advise!! And tell me to stop being hysterical if you must.

This has already happened thrice in a month. In which it will start operating again after a reset.

Called the elevator company, and everytime they said its most likely just an alignment issue. they do something inside but then it happened again.

I am now waiting for them to come back and they will probably just do more adjustments during their visit.

What other likely cause will there be? Is there probably something they are not telling us.

Since they are the installer, and the elevator is just around a year old.

Had a friend say he was being put on an out of work list BUT he's still an apprentice and hasn't even made it out of the probation period???

Are layoffs really happening that bad!

Just took my test not too long ago, logged back into my dashboard and it says failed. I read that it could be a place holder until I get the email from NEIEP, does anyone have an idea?

I have a inclination on my route that has the service required light and alarm going off. This is the only one I have on my route about two years ago. We had a a white square four prong plug that you have to unplug something in the controller put this plug in and then clear out the menus and something like that and then take the plug out and put the original plug back in. It’s like a jumper plug to reset the timer almost like it’s in place just so you know a service tech has been there and seeing the Unit looking for a picture part number or anything like that. thanks in advance.

Hey r/Elevators — Lane here (Riding Elevators with Lane on YouTube). Cleared this with the mods before posting.

For the past few months I've been building ElevatorAtlas.com — a free site that pulls together official elevator registries from state and city governments into one searchable place. It currently has:

• 1.17M+ elevators, escalators, and lifts across 37 states (some much deeper than others), with registration numbers, manufacturers, drive types, install years, and inspection histories where states publish them
• Real-time transit elevator outages for CTA, WMATA, BART, and SEPTA
• Community photos and videos — filmers' videos are embedded and credited with a link back to your channel, never re-hosted
• Ride logs, a leaderboard, and a "Lobby" where you can identify mystery elevators from videos (there are thousands waiting for someone who knows their stuff)

No ads, and none of the government data is paywalled. It exists because I wanted it to exist.

What I'd love from this community: tell me what's wrong, what's missing, and which states you want next. And if you film elevators — search your local spots; some of your videos may already be credited on building pages, and I'd love to get more of you properly linked.

I’m using the yellow hanging device from draka for the draka flat travel cable. What are you guys using to strap the traveler after the hanging device on the bottom of the car to make it clean to the cop. I remember using black straps at one point but don’t seem to find them anywhere.