Thane:
Attempting to escape from a stuck elevator, a liftman unwittingly jumped to his death and landed in the lift's bay area on Monday.
The mishap took place when the elevator got stuck between eighth and ninth floors of DNS Tower, at Court Naka. At 3.30pm, when the lift stopped after it developed a snag, liftman Patil informed the building watchman and called out for help. Meanwhile, he tried to jump out of the elevator, after opening the doors, but he couldn't judge the gap and fell down in the lift's bay area - from a height of almost 80 feet.
He was immediately rushed to the Thane civil hospital where he was declared dead before admission. Thane police have registered a case of accidental death and are investigating the matter.
The deceased 28-year-old Patil, a native resident of Jalgaon, was working in the building since the past few months.
In the past
April 27: Three occupants of an elevator in the civic headquarters in Belapur had a miraculous escape when the lift carrying them came crashing down from the seventh floor
April 18: Nivya Nadar, seven, died after she got stuck between the lift door and the building wall. The resident of Kamaraj society in Dharavi, was heading for a mass at Mahim church
February 26: A businessman from Madhya Pradesh fell to his death from third floor elevator of a Mumbai lodge
October 20, 2009: Six firemen from Wagle Estate fire station in Thane were suffocated to death inside a lift in Samata Nagar building