NEW YORK CITY-Suzanne Hart, a 41-year-old employee of Y&R, has died in the company’s headquarters on Madison Avenue after getting crushed in a malfunctioning elevator, according to various newspaper reports. Two others were sent to the hospital but later released.
Ironically, the accident comes only weeks after Y&R signed a lease for 340,000 square feet at 3 Columbus Circle. Already calls are being made to rethink the city's elevator inspection system. Published reports allege previous elevator violations in the buiding.
Police and fire officials say Hart had just stepped into the elevator at the building, at 285 Madison Ave., when the closing door caught her leg or foot. The elevator went up abruptly and pushed her into the elevator shaft, killing her, the officials said.
The two other people had been inside the elevator and witnessed the death, and were taken to the hospital for psychological trauma. Hart is listed as Y&R’s director of new business content, according to a version of the story in the Daily News, which can be found here.
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