BALDWINSVILLE -- Police say one of the co-owners of a hydroelectric plant on the Seneca River is dead after he fell while doing maintenance on a turbine and was sucked underwater by the powerful current.
Hampered by strong current in the dark confines of the turbine pit, emergency workers labored for nearly four hours to recover the body of 60-year-old John Stranburg of Allegany. The body was removed shortly before 4 p.m. Monday from the Wave Hydro power plant in Baldwinsville, near Syracuse.
Earlier Monday afternoon, rescuers pulled another man out of the river at the plant. He was taken away in an ambulance and is expected to be okay.
The 10-foot-diameter turbine continued to spin during the recovery operation.
-- Associated Press
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