Elevator outage dataset

Name: Elevator Uptime outages
Creator: Elevator Uptime
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Elevator, escalator and accessibility-lift outages reported by riders on Elevator Uptime, plus the transit-agency feeds and regulator inspection records whose terms allow redistribution. Each third-party source is its own gzipped file with its publisher’s attribution. Updated daily.

Inspection records are not outage confirmations: they are regulator inspection or violation records, and the Texas rows only flag elevators whose inspection certificate had expired. Other agencies and regulators shown on the site are left out because their terms do not allow redistribution or could not be confirmed.

Download

Current export: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:32:15 GMT · 103,699 records, 68 rider reports · 1900-01-01 to 2026-10-19

Rider reports

Rider reports (CSV) · rider-reports.csv · 32.5 kB · 68 rows
Rider reports, original link (CSV) · outages.csv · 32.5 kB · 68 rows
Rider reports (JSON) · outages.json · 54.2 kB · 68 rows

Transit agencies (gzipped CSV)

MTA (New York) elevator and escalator status · transit-mta-nyc.csv.gz · 10.7 kB · 146 rows
BART elevator status · transit-bart.csv.gz · 3.0 kB · 58 rows
MBTA elevator and escalator alerts · transit-mbta.csv.gz · 22.1 kB · 320 rows
Transport for London lift disruptions · transit-tfl.csv.gz · 76.2 kB · 961 rows
National Park Service alerts · transit-nps.csv.gz · 2.8 kB · 37 rows

Regulator inspection records (gzipped CSV)

City of Chicago Department of Buildings, elevator violations · inspections-chicago-dob.csv.gz · 6.3 MB · 77,740 rows
NYC Department of Buildings, elevator safety compliance · inspections-nyc-dob.csv.gz · 254.9 kB · 3,204 rows
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, expired elevator inspections · inspections-tx-tdlr.csv.gz · 2.0 MB · 21,165 rows

Manifest · run id, SHA-256 checksums, byte and row counts

Also on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/datasets/elevatoruptime/elevator-outages

Licence

The dataset files are licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: free to share and adapt for non-commercial use, with attribution to “Elevator Uptime (elevatoruptime.com)”. Commercial use of the dataset needs a licence; write to info@elevatoruptime.com.

AI training: the pages of elevatoruptime.com may be used for training under the signal in our robots.txt. The packaged dataset files on this page are licensed non-commercial, and commercial use of them, including commercial model training on the files, needs a licence.

Third-party sources and attribution

Third-party records stay subject to their publishers’ terms, and the attribution below must be kept with any copy. Our licence covers our selection, matching and compilation; it grants no rights in the third-party data beyond what its publisher grants.

City of Chicago Department of Buildings, elevator violations · inspections-chicago-dob.csv.gz

This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.

The City of Chicago may require any user of this data to stop displaying, distributing or otherwise using it.

Terms: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/narr/foia/data_disclaimer.html

NYC Department of Buildings, elevator safety compliance · inspections-nyc-dob.csv.gz

Source: NYC Department of Buildings, DOB NOW Elevator Safety Compliance (NYC Open Data e5aq-a4j2), retrieved 2026-10-19; modified by elevatoruptime.com: records matched to buildings and devices, addresses normalized, and each record reshaped into one row with start and end dates.

Terms: https://nyc-laws.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nycadmincode/t23/c05/

Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, expired elevator inspections · inspections-tx-tdlr.csv.gz

Source: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/Elevator_SearchApp/Elevator, copied 2026-10-19.

Neither elevatoruptime.com nor this information is endorsed by the State of Texas or any state agency.

These rows are expired-inspection flags derived by elevatoruptime.com from TDLR certificate expiration dates. They are not outage reports: a flagged device may still be running.

Terms: https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/disclaimer.htm

MTA (New York) elevator and escalator status · transit-mta-nyc.csv.gz

Source: MTA via data.ny.gov

Terms: https://data.ny.gov/download/77gx-ii52/application%2Fpdf

BART elevator status · transit-bart.csv.gz

Source: BART API (api.bart.gov). BART's licence is revocable; BART trademarks are not used and BART does not endorse this dataset.

Terms: https://www.bart.gov/schedules/developers/developer-license-agreement

MBTA elevator and escalator alerts · transit-mbta.csv.gz

Data provided by MassDOT/MBTA

Terms: https://www.mbta.com/developers

Transport for London lift disruptions · transit-tfl.csv.gz

Terms: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/terms-and-conditions/transport-data-service

National Park Service alerts · transit-nps.csv.gz

Source: National Park Service

Terms: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm

Cadence and corrections

A new export runs every day around 10:30 UTC. Each run is published whole and checked before the links switch to it.
Riders can delete their reports at /privacy. Deleted rows leave the next daily file and older runs are removed after 7 days, so a removal reaches every download link within 7 days.
Earlier revisions of the Hugging Face mirror keep their history and may still contain rows removed later.

Privacy

Rider fingerprints, email addresses, notes that moderation has not published and photos not classified as showing the outage are never exported. Email addresses typed into a published note are removed. Third-party rows never carry a note or photo.

Fields

Column	Meaning
outage_id	Stable id of the outage record (UUID).
building_id	Stable id of the building (UUID); the building page is building_url.
building_name	Building or station name as shown on the site.
address	Street address as shown on the site.
city	City or locality.
region	State, province or region code, when known.
country	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, normalized from the building's stored country (e.g. "Canada", "USA", "Danmark" become CA, US, DK). A value that cannot be matched to a code is passed through unchanged, so any value that is not two capital letters is raw source text, not an ISO code.
lat	Building latitude (WGS 84).
lng	Building longitude (WGS 84).
equipment_category	Equipment type of the affected unit (elevator, escalator, accessibility_lift, …), when the unit is known.
unit_label	Label of the affected unit, when the report names one.
source	Channel the record came in through (for rider reports, how the report was filed).
outage_source	Kind of record as stored: user_report, chicago_dob_inspection, nyc_dob_inspection, tx_tdlr_inspection or transit_api.
started_at	Rider reports and transit rows: when the outage started (ISO 8601, UTC). inspection_record rows: the inspection or violation date. expired_inspection_flag rows (Texas): the date the inspection certificate expired, not the start of an outage.
ended_at	Rider reports and transit rows: when the outage ended (ISO 8601, UTC), empty while open. inspection_record rows: when the regulator recorded the violation as resolved. expired_inspection_flag rows: when the flag was cleared (a newer inspection, or the device left the registry); empty while the certificate is still expired.
duration_hours	Rider reports and transit rows: outage length in hours, empty while it is still open. Always empty on inspection_record and expired_inspection_flag rows, which do not measure an outage.
resolution_source	Rider reports and transit rows: what closed the outage (rider confirmation, auto-close, agency feed, …). Always empty on inspection_record and expired_inspection_flag rows.
note	The rider's own note, only when moderation published it; email addresses are removed. Empty otherwise.
photo_url	The rider's photo, only when it was classified as showing the outage. Empty otherwise.
building_url	Building page on elevatoruptime.com.
record_type	rider_report, transit_agency_outage, inspection_record (a regulator inspection or violation record, not a confirmed outage) or expired_inspection_flag (Texas: the device's inspection certificate had expired; not an outage).
provider	Who the record comes from: user_report for rider reports, otherwise the source key listed in the README (e.g. chicago_dob_inspection, mta_nyc).

Citation

Elevator Uptime. Elevator Uptime outages (run 20261019T103215Z). https://www.elevatoruptime.com/data