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Title: Where painter Michael Sychta escaped whirling death
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated October 26, 1949 reads, "Co-worker Fred Putnam re-enacts scene; arrow points to broken blade." The article partially reads, "A Burbank painter, caught in the whirling blades of a giant 10-foot fan, escaped death and was recovering today at St. Joseph Hospital. Michael Sychta, 41, of 616 N. Keystone St., Burbank, was spraying paint in a cooling tower at the Burbank City Power Plant on Magnolia Blvd. near First St. late yesterday. By accident, the fan was turned on....Desperately, Sychta grabbed one of the blades. Twice around he went, in a 10-foot circle, slamming against the walls of the tower. Then the blade to which he clung broke off and he was hurled...to a wooden platform below."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00113844
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d014_f31_i27
CARL0005285296
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47336
Subject: Burbank City Power Plant
Burbank City Power Plant--Employees
Power-plants--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Power-plants--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Employees
Power-plants--Accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Painters, Industrial--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Fans (Machinery)--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Machinery in the workplace--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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