DIVE UNDER TRUCK

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21732, 14 March 1936, Page 8

DIVE UNDER TRUCK

INQUEST ON LABOURER''ASM ASHBURTON '. ' ■?( A verdict that George Ernest Coldly co% £ labourer employed by; the Astol biff tori 1 -County Council, -died -froms laceration of the. bram and fracturg of the skull received when he dived under a motor-truck for from falling shingle and, struck m head on a piece of mechanism, was res turned ..by ;the district f^f'iJfffll C. BathwJst, at the inquest J|rtc*eaH| Coldicott was loadmg.smngle wiH| three other men in a shingle Pit nan Methven on March 5 when the aceu dent occurred. He wasi admitted -ra the Ashburton Public Hospital an| died on March 12. , . .J§ Mr W. H. Woods appeared for Vm relatives. Mr C; G. de C. Efrury for th*j insurance company concerned, and mi R. Kennedy for the Ashburton Coun|| Council. , . - 'is! C. J. M. Gunning, a lorry driver J® the council, said that OM Archibald McPherson, and all employees of .S* e c°^ c loading shingle with hun in the ,pj§ the face of which was wet, but.flta pendicular. They had half loadedJ|| truck when witness noticed a ™6s§| meht in the face. He shouted outofl Ede and McPherson jumped large atrip of shingle came downi witness and Coldicott being ca u«*l Witness was pinned against the w*J§|§ and was dug clear by Ede and MeFhfiJ| son. He, noticed Coldicott J his side \mder the truck covered Ttiiffl shingle except for his hands fxajm head. It appeared that he bad struen his head on the hydraulic . on-pttffli case and he was unconscious. i-M Corroborative evidence was gfrm by Archibald L. McPherson and GgH ale* Ede.. ■ * * ♦?! Dr. A J. Mason, supermtendent,;jffl the Ashburton Public Hospital, ,sa|| that Coldicott was admitted in a caa&i tose condition with a fractured xigj| collarbone; a depressed fracture «■« skull, and a scalp wound. VM a perforation of the membranes rfjm brain, with laceration and contuSMli of the brain beneath." The P«&|| made fair progress with return o*jjgßß sciousness until the morning of Maf|| 11, when his condition sudden change and became w°fß until his death on the following da *|||