Trapped in an Elevator, Captured on Video

With so much in the news these days about elevator problems, it reminded me of this harrowing video of a man trapped in a New York elevator for 41 hours.

The time-lapse video shows Nicholas White, who in October 1999 was a 34-year-old production manager for Business Week. He stepped out for a cigarette break and on his way back to his desk was trapped in the elevator over the weekend. His plight was chronicled in this New Yorker story about the life of elevators.

And if your claustrophobia hasn’t kicked in, check out this interactive graphic of “entrapments” in New York City elevators last year.

Have you ever been trapped in an elevator?