[Noisebridge-discuss] elevator out of service

[Andy Isaacson]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 05:56:26PM +0000, Leif Ryge wrote:
> An Associate Safety Engineer for Elevators from the State of California
> Department of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety &
> Health visited Noisebridge this morning to inspect our elevator.
> 
> Due to the "stop" button being nonfunctional (part of the button itself
> is missing) he has turned off the elevator. It can be turned back on by
> a repair person as soon as they fix it. (The repair person will also
> notify the state that it has been fixed.)
> 
> The inspector will email his report to our landlord in a few days, which
> will also mention two less critical issues: the pit needs to be cleaned,
> and the ladder next to the spacebridge shelves needs to be more
> accessible so that a repair person could more easily access the elevator
> machine room in an emergency. The first issue is something the landlord
> should handle; the second is something we should.
> 
> Andy is contacting the landlord to ask them to call a repair person.

I called Henry, our contact point with the landlord, and relayed this
information.  He responded a few minutes later that the landlords (his
parents, the elderly Mr and Mrs Ho) will come by the building today to
check out the situation and schedule an elevator repair visit.

-andy