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A 41-year-old woman was killed in a tragic accident at work in Manhattan on Wednesday, December 14th, 2010, as she entered the elevator at Y&M’s 285 Madison Avenue building. Reports say that she had just taken a step into the elevator when it inexplicably moved upward and pinned her between floors; officials pronounced Hart dead at the scene. Witnesses say that the door was still open when the elevator started to ascend. Two other people remained trapped in the same elevator for an hour after witnessing the accident, and the body was not removed until about 10 hours after the incident.
The death of Suzanne Hart left friends, family, and coworkers reeling, and employees of Y&M were advised to instead work from home the following day. Although the Department of Buildings has records showing 14 elevator violations for the building, none of those violations were reportedly dangerous. A 2011 inspection of the elevator in this incident did not reveal any potentially hazardous violations, and it was not yet known at the time of this report what exactly caused the issue that led to this terrible accident.
As New York workers’ compensation lawyers, we have seen the aftermath of more than a few workplace accidents, and we know that elevator accidents in New York are not all that uncommon. It is so thankfully rare, however, that we see tragic, fatal elevator accidents like this one, and we were shocked and saddened to hear the news. We would like to offer our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Suzanne Hart in this difficult time.
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