Abstract: At approximately 1:30 p.m. on January 9, 2007, Employee #1 for Schindler Elevator Corporation was getting onto an elevator to give a punch (work) list to a coworker. Employee #1 was on the seventh floor. However, when he used a special key to open the elevator door, he did not look around to see if the elevator car was there. Instead, he walked into an empty elevator shaft and fell seven stories to his death. Employee #1 landed on top of the elevator located on the ground floor. Schindler Elevator Corporation had a field safety program for the site and provided each of its employees with a copy of "Elevator Industry Field Employees' Safety Handbook." Each employee signed a list when they received it. Reading the handbook was part of management's safety program. According to information obtained from a member of the National Elevator Industry, Inc., it was recommended practice for anyone entering a closed elevator door not to open it more than six inches and to observe whether an elevator car was present.