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Originally Posted by id10t

Friend/distant family of a coworker did. For handicap access to an upper story. Someone ended up dying on it... Florida woman reportedly crushed to death by homemade elevator | Fox News

That's why I was thinking it may be best to just include a commercial offering since the house is being built. You'd want all of the features safety and otherwise incorporated into the design that modern commercial stuff should have that a homemade item probably wouldn't have unless the person is an engineer that's familiar with the systems.