| Deaths | Injuries | Appointment | Incident | Location |
| 104 | 0 | 1995-05-10 | A locomotive crashed through a condom barrier and fell into a mine shaft, hitting an lift which was conveying 104 workers and causing it to plunge to the bottom of the shaft.[i] [2] |  Orkney, South Africa |
| 52 | 0 | 1987-08-31 | A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.four kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. x others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion.[iii] [4] |  Welkom, South Africa |
| xix | 0 | 2012-09-13 | An elevator brutal about 100 meters at a structure site, killing everyone on board.[v] |  Wuhan, China |
| 19 | 1 | 1932-10-10 | A mine-shaft elevator conveying twenty people savage at the Bickershaw Colliery, killing all but i person. [vi] [7] |  Leigh, England |
| 18 | 11 | 1973-07-30 | A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Markham Colliery.[8] | Chesterfield, England |
| 12 | 0 | 2008-10-thirty | An elevator plunged to the ground at a construction site.[9] | Xiapu Canton, Prc |
| 12 | 0 | 1993-06-02 | An elevator plunged to the footing from the 20th flooring at a construction site.[10] |  North Point, Hong Kong |
| 11 | 2 | 2019-04-25 | An elevator brutal at a structure site due to a snapped cable.[11] | Hengshui, Prc |
| 11 | iv | 2011-07-29 | A mine-shaft elevator barbarous at the Bazhanov coal mine.[12] |  Makiivka, Ukraine |
| 10 | v | 1964-03-27 | A steel cablevision hit a mine-shaft elevator at the Sachsen coal mine, killing 10 workers, including five Turkish nationals.[13] |  Heeßen, Germany |
| 10 | 0 | 2014-09-06 | An elevator plunged 32 stories at a structure site.[fourteen] |  Istanbul, Turkey |
| 9 | 0 | 2011-08-09 | An elevator fell from the 22nd floor at a building nether construction due to a snapped cablevision.[15] |  Salvador de Bahia, Brazil |
| 8–10 | 0-2 | 1904-01-13 | A crowd of employees at a Chocolate-brown Shoe Company factory was waiting for the lift when someone raised the gate, causing ten people to autumn down the shaft. At least eight people were killed. The other two were described as "fatally injured," merely it's unknown if they succumbed to their injuries.[16] [17] |  St. Louis, Missouri, U.South. |
| 8 | 0 | 2016-07-fifteen | A construction elevator roughshod from the 18th story of an apartment edifice under construction.[xviii] | Longkou, People's republic of china |
| 7 | 0 | 1989-05-21 | An elevator vicious at the Príncipes de España Hospital, killing seven visitors.[19] |  L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Espana |
| half dozen | one | 2019-12-31 | A temporary elevator at an under-structure belfry at a farmhouse fell from a height of thirty metres (98 ft) when the cable broke during a New Yr's Eve political party. A businessman and five members of his family were killed. Another relative was critically injured.[twenty] [21] [22] |  Patalpani, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| six | 0 | 2018-09-04 | An elevator fell up to 20 stories at a construction site.[23] |  Tehran, Iran |
| 6 | 0 | 2017-01-05 | Half-dozen men savage out of a mine-shaft lift due to a broken control switch.[24] |  Mogok Township. Myanmar |
| 6 | 0 | 2019-03-09 | A structure elevator brutal from the 15th floor.[25] |  Karachi, Pakistan |
| 5 | 12+ | 1957-03-20 | A construction elevator conveying 21 people plunged five floors when the cable broke.[26] [27] |  Jacksonville, Florida, U.South. |
| v | 0 | 1999-09-07 | An lift carrying v painters fell from the 10th floor at an apartment building under construction, killing anybody on lath.[28] |  Yongin, Republic of korea |
| 5 | 0 | 2009-04-02 | Workers cruel from an elevator at a construction site.[29] | Laiwu, Cathay |
| 4 | 0 | 1973-04-12 | A wink fire swept through an elevator at the Sears Tower, killing four elevator mechanics who were using cleaning fluid to rub downwardly elevator guide runway.[30] | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| iv | 14 | 1903-05-22 | An elevator at the Donnelly Building fell from the 5th or 6th flooring when the steel cable snapped, causing it to crash through the floor above the basement.[31] It was caused by overloading and the lift had an bereft capacity. No charges were filed.[32] | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 4 | 3 | 1938-04 | A mine-shaft elevator fell 800 feet (244 m) at a gold mine.[33] |  Beardmore, Ontario, Canada |
| 4 | three | 1909-03-25 | An elevator fell almost 60 feet (18 m) at a wool warehouse at St Katharine Docks[34] | London, England |
| 4 | 1 | 2018-09-04 | An elevator fell from the sixth floor of a hotel nether construction. Overload of people and construction materials was blamed for the blow.[35] |  Pailin Province, Kingdom of cambodia |
| iv | 0 | 1958-04-sixteen | An elevator at a dam at the Snowy Mountains Scheme fell about 400 feet (122 one thousand) when the cable broke, killing 4 Italian employees of a French construction firm.[36] |  Nigh Cabramurra, Commonwealth of australia |
| 4 | 0 | 2019-12-30 | An elevator at a Brazilian Navy apartment building fell from the 9th flooring when the cabin became detached from the cable system, killing four members of a family.[37] | Santos, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 3 | vii | 1932-09 | An elevator fell 150 feet (46 m) down a shaft when the cable broke.[38] | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| iii | iii | 2019-08-14 | An elevator carrying four workers vicious from the 15th flooring at an apartment edifice under construction, killing 3 of them and seriously injuring the 4th. Two workers on the ground were also injured.[39] | Sokcho, South Korea |
| iii | ii+ | 1892-03-fifteen | Workers at a boiler manufactory were using a freight elevator to lift heavy machinery when the rope broke. Three workers were killed instantly and ii others were described as "fatally injured," only it'due south unknown if they died. Several others suffered minor injuries.[40] |  St. Louis, Missouri, U.Due south. |
| ii | xvi | 1920-08-29 | An elevator plunged from the 10th floor at the Clarendon Building when the main cablevision broke.[41] | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| 2 | 11 | 1902-ten | An lift vicious at a shoe mill.[42] | Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 2 | 10 | 1946-12-11 | An elevator dropped 35 anxiety (xi m) at the American Woolen Company Foxcroft Mill, afterward which the cables and other items crashed through the roof. [43] | Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, U.S. |
| 2 | 6 | 1904-09 | A freight lift carrying 10 people barbarous three stories at a Sears store. The freight elevator was being used because the passenger lift was out of service for repairs.[44] | Chicago, Illinois, U.Due south. |
| 2 | 2 | 2020-01-01 | Iv people were in an lift at an apartment edifice when information technology lost ability as a result of a fire on the ground floor. The lift stopped and the cabin filled with smoke, rendering the victims unconscious. A 39-twelvemonth-one-time man and his 4-year-erstwhile son were killed, while the 36-twelvemonth-former mother and the couple's 8-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The burn down was likely caused by fireworks and two boys, aged 12 and 13, were arrested on suspicion of arson.[45] |  Arnhem, Netherlands |
| 2 | 0 | 2017-05-09 | The floor of an elevator gave mode between the sixth and 9th floor of an flat building, causing ii teenagers to fall downward the lift shaft.[46] | Madrid, Espana |
| 2 | 0 | 2002-08-23 | A temporary lift fell nineteen floors at an office tower nether construction.[47] |  New York Urban center, New York, U.S. |
| 2 | 0 | 1999-05-thirteen | An elevator plunged four or five floors at a warehouse, killing 2 maintenance workers who were trying to take the elevator out of service.[48] | South Kearny, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 2 | 0 | 2020-01-04 | A young couple drowned in a flooded lift in s Tel Aviv during heavy rainfall.[49] |  Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 1 | 0 | 2012-06-25 | An role building elevator started moving while an employee was holding the door with his leg.[50] [51] | Tel Aviv, State of israel |
| 0 | 24 | 1996-11-15 | An elevator at the CIPS power plant in Newton, Illinois dropped 15 floors. [52] | Newton, Illinois, U.S. |