FATALITY ON SHIP.
WARNING TO WATERSIDERS. LOADING OF SLINGS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLTXGTOX, this day. "I have no doubt that wharf labourers will take notice of this accident and will exercise judgment in the loading of lunall ami large packages together. In fact, it is essential that they should do so," said the coroner, Mr. E. Gilbertson, in giving a verdict of accidental death at the in° quest concerning the death of Donald McLennan, a wharf labourer, aged 53, of Wellington, who suffered fatal injuries when a bale of paper fell en him from a sling he had loaded in the hold of the steamer Karamea on October 13. The evidence regarding the soundness in the loading of the sling had been conflicting, said Mr. Gilbertson, but he gathered that there had been an element of risk in loading small cases on top of a bale of paper. McLennan and his mate were experienced men and doubtless considered the sling safe, but it seemed a case of familiarity breeding contempt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 9
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