TOUCHED HIGH-POWER LINE.
APPRENTICE'S SEVERE SHOCK. WORKMATES SAVE HIS LIFE. (By Telegraph-—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. While working at a switching station at Tai Tapu. Balfour Marshall, an electrical apprentice in the employ of the Public Works Department, received a severe shock and burns. Marshall was up a pole attending to a high tension switch, and presumably lost his balance, with the result that his hand came into contact with the terminal of the switch, which was carrying 33.000 volts. The youth collapsed, but his fellow workmen immediately applied resuscitation methods and restored consciousness in about five minutes. The young man is now recovering in Christchurch Hospital. He owes his life to the prompt action of his workmates.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 200, 24 August 1928, Page 5
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