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ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) — Federal regulators have cited an elevator company after a worker died last year when he became pinned by an elevator at a central New York nursing home.
Christopher Hamelinck of Fayetteville was at the Iroquois Nursing Home in the town of Onondaga in May 2015 to perform service work on an elevator. Another elevator came down while he was in the shaft doing maintenance and pinned him between a steel ladder and a support beam.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in its November citation says the Otis Elevator Co. didn't follow safety procedures and says Hamelinck hadn't been properly trained.
OSHA officials tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse (http://bit.ly/23oux8u ) the elevator company is contesting the citation and proposed fines totaling $35,000.
A trial is scheduled for December.
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