[this_ol_patriot]

As for that maintenance man he probably had the safeties disabled and older freights probably don't have the safety factor as commercial elevators. I work in maintenance but don't have in depth knowledge of the elevators but as far I can see you have the pressure safety on the edge of the door, a set electronic beams and a switch has to be made by full closure of the door BEFORE the elevator will operate. We sometimes have the opposite problem here where food service or patient transport knock a door out of alignment slightly and the elevator won't work at all.

[Leroy S. Mort]

As for that maintenance man he probably had the safeties disabled

The elevator had a small window in each of the doors on all floors. There was a button to ring to call the elevator. The button wasn't working on that floor and as a consequence, someone had knocked out the window so they could hear if the elevator was moving. The guy stuck his head in the window to see where the elevator was. Unfortunately for him, it was on the floor above him..moving down. You can imagine the rest of the story..