Two construction workers were injured in an elevator accident in Greenwich Village on Wednesday after the elevator counterweight snapped causing the elevator to drop half a floor. The two construction workers loaded the elevator with construction material. Some of the construction material which protruded through a hatch in the roof of the lift became entangled with the elevator’s cord and counterweight just before the elevator dropped. The two workers got trapped in the elevator for an hour and half during which they feared that the elevator was going to plummet to the ground. Luckily firefighters were able to shore up the elevator and rescue the two men.
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