Otis Elevator Company recalls home elevators – U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

In a document released by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on 12/17/20 Otis Elevator is recalling to inspect private residence elevators due to entrapment hazard; risk of serious injury or death to young children.  The entrapment and injury of small people has been an issue within the elevator industry/residential lift industry for many years.  If you have a residential lift Otis/Cemco or another brand, please have your service provider look at the distance between the car door and hatch door and resolve immediately if necessary. If you have an Otis/Cemco lift residential lift there is contact information on how to get this addressed or remedied through Otis.

 

For more information on the particulars of the danger you can review Colley Elevator’s blog post from 7/20/19.

http://colleyelevator.blogspot.com/2019/07/residential-lift-safety-washington-post.html

or

http://colleyelevator.blogspot.com/2014/11/residential-elevator-safety-have-you.html

Again, if you have a residential elevator you should contact a responsible service provider to inspect your lift to see if you need to have work completed to make sure it is in safe condition.

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