Elevator Accident Cruise Ship
The company says a crew member working on the elevator died.
Elevator accident cruise ship. A fatal elevator accident on board a container ship highlights the importance of using proper ship safety procedures on vessels. Police and a cruise company say an Italian electrician aboard the Carnival Ecstasy cruise ship was killed while working on an elevator during the final leg of a three-day cruise from Miami. Posted on Thursday December 31st 2015 at 729 pm.
MIAMI Bloody elevator doors greeted a family on a Carnival Christmas cruise after an electrician was killed while working on the elevator Fox 4 reportedW. On Sunday Jose Sandoval Opazo 66 a crewmember on board the Carnival Ecstasy was killed while working on an elevator. Bloody mystery on Carnival Cruise ship A cruise ship passenger shares disturbing video of an elevator covered in blood and the doors struggling to open and close.
According to the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau ATSB a crew member was killed after being trapped between the elevator cage and a bulkhead. CNN affiliate WFTX has the. Waterfall of blood pours from elevator after it crushes cruise ship worker to death.
Passengers aboard the Carnival Ecstasy witnessed part. Two passengers Matt Davis and his wife Susan were aboard a three-night Carnival Ecstasy cruise when they came across an elevator door cascading with blood as it struggled to open and close. Chief electrician Jose Sandoval Opazo 66 was doing routine maintenance atop an elevator stopped on the sixth floor of the Carnival Ecstasy on Dec.
A cruise ship accident lawyer notes that Carnival Cruise Line has expressed its sympathies to the family of a Carnival employee who was killed in a horrific onboard elevator accident. During 2018 and 2019 the Australian Maritime Safety Authority AMSA received notification of two separate accidents that involved crew members being trapped and crushed by a moving elevator. A couple on a cruise on the ship Carnival Ecstasy saw blood pouring down the front of an elevator.
Exact details have yet to emerge from an ongoing investigation but 66-year-old Carnival electrician Jose Sandoval Opazo died as a result. In both instances the elevator moved while the crew members were working between the elevator casing and the cage resulting in fatal crush injuries. Few details have been revealed about the cause of the accident which occurred during a three-day cruise from Miami.
