MAN ELECTROCUTED
FATALITY IN TUNNEL
(By TelcgrapSi.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, 13th April. Timothy O'Kccfe, a single man, aged 27, was killed instantly whe7i he jerk- J ed from tho grround a 7ft electric lamp standard used, to light his labours in No. 3 tunnel past Tangnrakau on the Stratford-Main Trunk railway. Mr. O'Kee/.'c was found electrocuted when his companions .passed by at 3 a.m. yesterday. Until 1 p.m. he had been seen working. The c.huso of death evidently was Mr. O'Keefe's wrenching the spiked bar from the ground so that, it made contact with the overhead, electric cable from which tho electric locomotives receive power. i The verdict at the inquest was that deatli was due to electric shock, accidentally received, no blaimc being attachable to anyone. A long flex of electric cord was used by workmen in the tunnel, and the portable light was fixed to a spiked bar, which the workmen shifted as required, driving the bar into tho ground.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 12
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162MAN ELECTROCUTED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 12
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