Shocking moment blind man falls down elevator shaft at LA hotel - but miraculously survives

A blind man has miraculously survived after falling four floors through an elevator shaft in a Los Angeles hotel.

The shocking incident happened at the Madison Hotel, which is used to house low-income residents.

It was caught on video, and the man can be seen waiting for the elevator doors to open before stepping in.

However, there is no elevator, and the legally blind man falls through the shaft and plunges four floors.

He is expected to survive his injuries following the ordeal.

A blind man (pictured right) has miraculously survived after falling four floors through an elevator shaft in a Los Angeles hotel

The shocking incident happened at the Madison Hotel (pictured), which is used to house low-income residents

A video of the incident was shared online and is part of a lawsuit against the owner of the building.

In addition to the accident, it shows a worker nearby rushing to help the blind man following his fall.

‘You’ve already got the guy falling down the elevator shaft,’ resident Tammy Davis told Fox11. ‘I mean, what’s next?’

She has lived in the building for 12 years and insists it is ‘a little better than living on the street, so, you take what you can get, but it's not the best conditions.’

The property is owned by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and its president is Michael Weinstein.

It owns other single-room occupancy hotels in Los Angeles, which help low-income people and some are on Skid Row.

They have spent around $300 million sponsoring rent control ballot initiatives in California, according to the Los Angeles Times.

However in Los Angeles, code enforcement and public health complaints at buildings owned by the foundation are three times higher than other nonprofits in Skid Row, the outlet said. 

It was caught on video and the man is seen waiting for the elevator doors to open before stepping in

‘You’ve already got the guy falling down the elevator shaft,’ resident Tammy Davis told Fox11. ‘I mean, what’s next?’

Davis added, ‘We have roaches, we have bed bugs. The bathrooms are always not clean.

‘The bathrooms are always not clean. If you say something, sometimes they fix it. Sometimes you get on a waiting list.’

She wants several issues inside the building dealt with and said, ‘Somebody has to do something.

‘My main goal is to get the place fixed up.’

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation pointed to a legal case they won against the hotel’s previous owner over a broken elevator.

It added they have spent more than $6 million on renovating the Madison Hotel since 2018, with $600,000 in elevator costs.

Residents in the building pay $400 a month to stay at the facility.

‘The Los Angeles Times and other media outlets parroting the Times' sloppy journalism repeatedly have blamed AHF for The Madison's problems, especially its elevator outages,’ a spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation said.

‘This judgement proves AHF did not know the elevator was problematic to begin with.

‘The real story should be the efforts AHF makes to keep the elevator running and to fix it as quick as possible when it goes out… the prior owner never disclosed more than a $150 receipt for repairs in the three years he owned the building.’

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