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10/27/00
Paul Esbrandt

4:11:00

Subject

[Messengers]Thur.L.A.Times

Body

It was reported in the L.A. Times, Thursday, Oct. 26, that a courier

(T.V. news said a Car Messenger, but L.A.Times just said courier) fell

to his death, after slipping after prying open the doors of an elevator.

The reason I want to inform you of this, is because on the television

news they said that this is not all that uncommon. That it has happened

before.

PaulE



L.A.Times-

Man Falls to Death

From Stalled Elevator.



Century City--A man slipped and fell 140 feet to his death after he

apparently pried open the doors of an elevator that had become stuck

between floors in a high rise building, police said Wednesday.



Investigators said the accident probably occurred about 4 P.M. Tuesday,

but the body of the man, whose identity was not released, was not found

until Wednesday morning.



Police said the man was a courier who had made a pick-up at an office on

one of the upper floors of the building at 1840 Century Park East. On

the way back down, the elevator that he was riding got stuck between the

eight and ninth floors.



The man called building security personnel, who told him to wait in the

elevator until help arrived. But the man apparently pried open the

doors. Officers said he slipped and fell to his death, probably while

trying to crawl from the elevator to a space above the ceiling of the

eight floor.



Maintenance personnel responding to the stuck elevator found the doors

pried open. Seeing no sign of the man, they repaired the elevator and

put it back service. At 10am Wednesday, while doing a routine check in

the elevator pit, a maintenace worker found the man's body.
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