Man trying to retrieve phone crushed to death by elevator
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NEW YORK - Officials say a New York City building worker was fatally crushed by elevator machinery while trying to retrieve a cell phone that had apparently fallen down the shaft.
Police say Kennie Lessie died Friday afternoon in a building on Parkside Avenue in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn. He was 64 and an assistant superintendent in the six-story apartment house.
According to police and the Department of Buildings, Lessie and a tenant went into the basement elevator room to search for a phone, and Lessie got caught in moving ropes and machinery as the elevator moved among floors.
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