Elevator outages in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's older residential stock, Center City office buildings, and SEPTA stations all depend on elevator service that's often older than the tenants. Elevator Uptime tracks every indexed building's outage history in a public, searchable record. Report a broken elevator in 15 seconds. No account, no email.
Outage history — last 12 months
12 recorded outages across tracked Philadelphia buildings. Record begins April 2026.
Each bar counts outages by the month they began, drawn from regulatory records and live-feed archives. A month with no bar had no recorded outages in our data — not necessarily zero real outages.
Affected buildings
All tracked buildings (7)
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Elevator outages in Philadelphia
Philadelphia's Property Maintenance Code requires landlords to maintain elevator service in good working order. Complaints are filed with the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I), which also administers elevator permits and inspections. Pennsylvania's Department of Labor and Industry oversees statewide elevator safety through the Bureau of Occupational and Industrial Safety.
Transit coverage is anchored by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). The agency publishes elevator and escalator status for rail and subway stations with accessible routes at septa.org/elevators. A 24-hour elevator status hotline is also available at 877-SEPTA4U (877-737-8248). Outages at SEPTA stations are added to the public record here where agency data is available.
How to report a broken elevator in Philadelphia
- Residential tenants: Philadelphia 311 for Department of Licenses and Inspections enforcement
- Statewide elevator safety: Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Bureau of Occupational and Industrial Safety
- SEPTA stations: SEPTA elevator status or SEPTA Customer Service at 215-580-7800
- Any building, public record: file an outage on Elevator Uptime in 15 seconds
For the full reporting guide, see how to report a broken elevator.