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In April 1920, 17,000 elevator operators went on strike in New York City. [7] Roughly 900 of these strikers were women. [7] The strike was due to operators seeing wage cuts of 10–15%; and, nightmen working 84 hours a week, with no days off. [8] As a result, they asked for wage increases of 25–30%, an eight-hour workday, and for the union to ...
An incident involving an elevator at a former ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... The Teller County Sheriff’s Office did not provide details about what went wrong in a news release ...
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A mine elevator fell 200 m in the Impala Platinum mine shaft accident. [12] [13] Rustenburg, South Africa: 12 0 2008-10-30 An elevator plunged to the ground at a construction site. [14] Xiapu County, China: 12 0 1993-06-02 An elevator plunged to the ground from the 20th floor at a construction site. [15] North Point, Hong Kong: 11 2 2019-04-25
[11] [12] Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was thrown from her elevator car on the 80th floor and suffered severe burns. First aid workers placed her on another elevator car to transport her to the ground floor, but the cables supporting that elevator had been damaged in the incident, and it fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement. [13]
A woman in her 70s opened the door to the elevator in her New Jersey apartment building and stepped inside — only to plunge down the shaft because it wasn’t there.
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1960 Writers Guild of America strike; 1961 1,450,000 1962 1,230,000 1962 New York City newspaper strike; 1963 941,000 1964 1,640,000 1964–1965 Scripto strike; 1965 1,550,000 1966 1,960,000 1966 New York City transit strike; Texas farm workers' strike; St. John's University strike of 1966–67; 1967 2,870,000 1967 US Railroad strike; 1967 US ...