LIFT FATALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 7

LIFT FATALITY.

IN APPRENTICE KILLED. BY ELEVATOK. WHILE WORKlX'fi IN SHAFT. A fatality occurred on the premises of Jtfessre. Milne and Clnuve. Queen Street, about H.lO this morning, when an apprentice, Nnriinn < uthburt Urough, in the employ nf the Eleetrk' Construction Company, was crushed by a lift. He was removed to the Auckland Hospital, ■vriiero lie Miivumbcd shortly after halfpast eleven. It appear- thai Rmugli, who ie said to have Iv.mi a mo-t rare fill hid. was at work about the lift, whim is being ingtallcd. Hi' wa* told by the foreman to shift it temporary battery placed ebout a couple nf feet beneath the ground floor, and "Inch could be got a t by standing <>n the motor in the ibaseaifiit. l"'rom the wall win-re the battery wn- phued a girder runs to the other side of the ulinfi. Tlie olevntnr, whirh i* not yet in use for the public, was used frequently yesterday by the Electric ('oantruction Company's employee.; t<> shift materials. The lift W 'V- nUn u-oil by the workmen about T.-i-'i this morning, and prior to the accident had uindc .-ov.Tal trips bstwecn the ground lloor mid the basement. When Brnujjli went down to eiiift the battery and stood on the motor to do co, he must have leaned his head over the girder. At the same time the operator, unaware of the lad's presence, switched the current on to descend, with a result the unfortunate youth was struck at the back of the head and shoulders. The other workmen instantly stopped the lift on feeling the impact. The lad w ns taken to the hospital in Rn unconscious condition, and never recovered. Brough ivns about 18 years, of age, and reeided at 5, Finch Street, Jlorningside.