Man crushed to death by elevator in the Manhattan building

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A man was crushed in a lift Thursday morning in a building in Manhattan recently fined for work in dangerous conditions, authorities said.

Firefighters responding to a 911 call for an elevator emergency on the Manhattan Promenade, in the Kips Bay neighborhood, found a man stuck in a part of the elevator wedged between the lobby and the sub -sol, said a spokesman for the fire department.

This man, whose identity was not made public, was declared dead on the scene. Firefighters were working to rescue three people who were in the elevator and who appeared not to be injured, the department said.

The Manhattan Promenade, a 23-storey tower, has two elevators for tenants. The City's Buildings Department fined the building nearly $ 1,300 in May after the inspectors discovered that a security feature of one of the elevators had been disabled or tampered with. The building was ordered to stop using this elevator until it was repaired.

Thursday, we did not know immediately if the man was climbing the same elevator or the second. The building investigators were on the scene Thursday morning and had opened an investigation, announced the city.

The safety function, called the door zone restrictor, prevents an elevator door from opening more than a few centimeters when an elevator is between two floors. The city's archives did not indicate that this had been corrected.

There are more than 70,000 elevators in New York, but fatal accidents are rare.

In 2011, a The 44-year-old advertising agency was killed after being found stuck between the elevator and the wall of a downtown office building.