Family sues over hotel worker's fatal elevator accident
Housekeeper falls 6 floors down elevator shaft.By Craig Kapitan - Express-News
The family of a Crockett Hotel housekeeper who plunged to her death down an open elevator shaft last month has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
Named in the suit are New Jersey-based Otis Elevator Company and 1859-Historic Hotels Ltd., a Galveston-based company that owns the Crockett Hotel and the nearby Menger Hotel in downtown San Antonio.
Gloria Rodriguez, 65, had been an employee at the Crockett Hotel for 12 years when she fell six stories down the service elevator shaft Dec. 28. The elevator's state-required annual inspection was more than two weeks overdue at the time, the Express-News has reported.
