LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 10

LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED.

CONTACT WITH LIVE WIRE.

MES FROM SHOCK.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

OAMARU, Friday.

A linesman, Mr. Stanley Wilson, aged 20, was electrocuted while working with a Waitaki Electric Power Board gang at Otiake this afternoon.

Deceased was sitting on one of the crossbars of a power pole, and was, engaged in widening the wires in front of the residence of Mr. Harris. A mate named Philip Shalders, who was standing below, heard a groan, and, looking up, saw Wilson lying across the wires, which carry 400 volts. The wires were immediaely cut, and Wilson released. A doctor was summoned, and efforts were made to revive the man, but he died from the shock early in the evening.

Deceased, who was married and had one child, was an experiencdd linesman. He had been for about two years in thb service of the Waitaki Power Board, prior to which he was engaged as a linesman by the Ashburton Board. He had on two previous occasions received rather severe shocks. He was a native of Dunedin, where his parents reside. This is the first fatality of the kind that has occurred since the inception of ithe Waitaki Power Board.