Parkway Elevators, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jun 29, 2020 (fatal): Employee in elevator shaft is struck by falling bar and dies

At 12:00 p.m. on June 29, 2020, Employee #1 and a coworker, employed by an elevator company, were installing new elevator cable in a freight elevator during the renovation of a six-story commercial building. The coworker was standing on top of the elevator car that was just above the sixth floor. He was feeding elevator cable down to Employee #1, who was on the basement level of the elevator shaft. In the sixth floor hallway outside the elevator opening were two reel stands, Greenlee Model Number 687; a horizontal reel spindle bar; and a 140-foot long reel of elevator cable that was placed on the spindle bar. As the elevator cable ran low, it caused the reels to jerk. The horizontal reel spindle bar dislodged and fell through a 12.5-inch gap between the bottom of the elevator car and the sixth floor elevator opening. The spindle bar fell approximately 84.5 feet and struck Employee #1 in the head. Emergency services transported Employee #1 to the hospital, where he died from his head injury on June 30, 2020.

Incident on Jan 7, 2014 (fatal): Employee is crushed in elevator door and killed

At 10:00 a.m. on January 7, 2014, an employee was performing maintenance on a large freight elevator with a coworker. They were troubleshooting a problem on an elevator that was failing to return to the first floor. The employee checked all of the limit switches in the elevator pit and found everything working properly. His coworker entered the elevator and proceeded to go to the second floor when he heard the employee yell Stop. The upper half of the exterior elevator door had moved up as the elevator transferred to the second floor while the bottom half of the elevator door remained in place. The employee leaned into the elevator to determine what caused the 300 pound door to raise when the door fell down onto his head, crushing it. The employee was killed. killed.