| A moment later, the rope hoist main drive unit failed and the platform, with four riders still onboard, free-fell to the bottom of the hoistway. |
| The total loss of energy results from losses of motor, brake, frequency convertor and hoistway. |
| Elevator kinematics describes the motion of an elevator car in a hoistway, regardless of mass or force. |
| We rode up to the twenty-eighth floor, a single vast room, with various hoistway openings in the floor, like crevasses. |
| This became an accepted routine situational adaptation done to allow easier access to the elevator hoistway. |
| Immediately following the occurrence, other stevedores entered the hoistway to assist the injured. |
