Horace McIntosh (1937)
MCINTOSH
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:26
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 10, 1937
Page 1, Column 4MCINTOSH IS KILLED WHEN PULLEY BROKE
Shovel Operator Struck By Pulley, Falls On Rocks In State Quarry
Horace McIntosh, about 30, power shovel operator in the state quarry 12 miles west of Winterset, was fatally injured Monday morning about eight o’clock when the pulley broke, knocking him from the machine and over the face of the quarry on to the rocks 12 feet below. He died while being brought to the Winterset hospital.
Physicians said that McIntosh’s skull was fractured when he was hit by the pulley and cable and that his neck was broken when he fell on the rocks.
McIntosh came to Winterset from Red Oak late March when the state decided to open a quarry in the Argentine rock south of Highway No. 2 on Middle River in Webster township. His wife and a six weeks old baby survive him.
Examination of the broken pulley show that it apparently had been welded once and that it had been partially broken for some time. McIntosh’s death is the only serious accident that has occurred in any of the Madison county quarries for several years.
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