Electrician killed while working inside cruise ship's elevator shaft

摘要

Acrewmember was crushed to death while working on an elevator aboard Carnival Ecstasy as the ship returned to Miami during a three-day cruise. Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, of Ligu-ria, Italy, was an electrician on the 2,056-passenger ship, which is owned and operated by Carnival Cruise Line. The accident occurred at about 1815 hours on Dec. 27 as the ship headed home from Nassau, Bahamas. Alvaro Zabaleta, a detective with the Miami-Dade Police Department, said Opazo was working by himself when he died. He was compressed between the elevator and shaft wall. "He was inside the shaft when the elevator began to move and it pinned him," Zabaleta said.