"elevator crashes", where the car falls to the bottom of the shaft. Yes, that was the kind of incident I was mainly commenting on. The list of elevator accide

"elevator crashes", where the car falls to the bottom of the shaft. Yes, that was the kind of incident I was mainly commenting on. The list of elevator accidents is mostly composed of ones involving construction, freight, and mine-shaft elevators. I probably should have made a point to qualify what I said above as "passenger elevators in office type buildings" or something. Definitely did not mean to include mine-shafts / construction site elevators, etc. That said, I don't have the original reference handy, but I recall that where I read that original statistic was a credible source.