LAS VEGAS (AP) - Officials say a worker at Caesars Palace accidentally drove a motorized cart through a freight elevator’s doors and fell about two floors down into an empty elevator car below.
Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Jon Klassen said crews rescued the man shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday before sending him to University Medical Center in Las Vegas with injuries that were serious but not life-threatening.
Klassen says the worker was suspended upside down for more than an hour during the rescue.
Caesars spokesman Gary Thompson says the in-room dining worker had been pulling a rack of serving bowls when the rack got stuck. The man turned before accidentally pressing the accelerator, which sent him through the closed elevator doors.
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