The electrician - named as Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, by Miami Dade police - as working on the elevator on Sunday 27th December evening when the accident took place on board the Cruise Ship.
A second person appears to have been inside the elevator, and had to run out through the pouring blood.
Matt Davis, and eye witness
described what he witnessed on the ship's 10th floor as the 'nightmare after Christmas'.
'To look and see the elevator with just blood coming don like a sheet, and not stopping... it as a real life scene of The Shining,' he told Fox 4.
Mr Davis, who had treated his wife Susan and their children to a last minute cruise, described the sound as something like 'rainfall'.
Mr. Davis and his family with the other passengers on the 859-foot-long cruise liner were on the final leg of a three-day cruise from Miami.
The exact cause of the accident is still unknown, but an investigation is underway.
