Didn't personally "see" it as I was not in the shaft with the guy at the time, but was there immediately after.
Elevator tech I'd known for years was working on top of one of the cars. At some point he bottomed the elevator out on the last safety. A safety that requires a manual reset in the elevator pit. Rather than call someone else to come and get the car moving again (the proper procedure), he hopped a ride on the adjacent elevator to the top floor after a passenger entered and started it in motion.
According to the computer, he was able to make it to the roof and re-set safety, as well as the pit to re-set the manual. He took a ride on the adjacent elevator again to get to his workspace on top of the car he was working on. Best as we can tell, as he was stepping off, he tripped. The car started up with him hanging off the side of it. Up the car goes, and he got crushed between it and a structural beam. A 6' tall 260 lb man does not fit well between 12" of steel. We found his glasses, some blood, and hand prints on the beam where he held on before he no longer couldn't, where he dropped the 20' back onto the car he was working on. Massive internal injuries. He did not make it and was dead when we opened the doors.
