You have just jogged my memory back a couple of decades. An engineer inspector carrying out a routine annual cable needling inspection, took the car to the lower floor, climbed into the shaft from the floor above and used the cartop engineers control panel to move up one floor at a time. Most lifts have the machine room above, but in a theatre, due to a flat roof above the stage fly chamber, which would not take the weight of the drive motors and they would be on the roof in the open air, so the drive and control room was below stage behind the orchestra pit. The engineer would have known this, but his brain must have been a bit more needled than the ropes that day. On the final lift, the car reached the extreme top of the shaft, killing him instantly.
