DANGEROUS FALLS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 10 July 1929, Page 4

DANGEROUS FALLS.

TWO MEN SUFFER INJURIES. (PESSS ASSOCIATION TKLKOSAM.) WELLINGTON, July 9. Two men had remarkable escapes from serious injury to-day when one of them fell from a height of 40 feet, and the other from a height of 27 feet. The first accident occurred when George Hutchinson, a pipe fitter, of Upper Hutt, fell 27 feet while working, in the Lower Hutt Railway Workshops. Hutchinson, who is employed by Messrs A. and T. Burt, Ltd., was putting bolts in the ceiling near some machinery when he had his clothes caugiit by a machine and torn completely off him. He was then flung to the ground. He was removed to the Public Haspital suffering from a fractured left wrist and abrasions to his chest, neck, and right arm, and also shock. The man who fell 40 feet was GWilliams, of 11 Elizabeth street, Lower Hutt, and he escaped with less serious injuries than Hutchinson. Williams, who is a storeman at McDuffs. Ltd., at the corner of Cuba and Dixon j streets, fell through a skylight there at 3.10 p.m., and sustained an incised j wound on the right eye and abrasions to his face and hands.