ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 5

ACCIDENTS

STRUCK BY FUSING WOOD

DEATH OP SAW-MILL PROPRIETOR

While working at his saw-mill in Main street, West on . Monday afternoon, Brbest Hayward Mptriswas struck about the body by Joymg.wopd, and was immediately taken to the Ox-i ford Hospital,, where be died lest even-. The accident-occurred -about 3.30 p.m., while Morris was feeding the saw with' pine- timber r cases;- The oflfcut. taugtirw say «e flew up, dne lend hitting Morrmpf chest. It broke a. rib' lung, and another bit of wood broke through the chest below his chin, and punctured his-windpipe. .-v ' V Dr. W. E. Minty was called and. ordered Morris to be taken to the Oxford Hospital. A specialist was from Christchurch that evening, " and although it was possible toeaffcrast -the broken rib from -the lung,, and to stop the bleeding, nothing could. be .done for the injury to the windpipe. Morris was a well-known-resident of Oxford, and was in his fifty-first year. He was the proprietor of Ijhemill at which he was working when the incident occurred. ■ , . J- , "»aJ-rS “v" if*. HUBBIES TO TOOT ' K

H. L. Forrester, a labourer, residing at 15 York street, Opawa, was admitted to the Christchurch' Public Hospital about noon yesterday. with an injured foot He was working at the Canterbury Frozen Meat Com* pany’s works at Factory road, Belfast, when a heavy cask fell -on his foot. He. was brought into the hospital by the St. John Ambulance, and his condition last Jev&iingSwas satisfactory. ’ \ '■

YOUNG MAN SUFFERS BROKEN PELVIS

[THE PRESS Special Service.] . WESTPORT, As the result of being struck or the-l back by a bale of hops, which from a hoisting 'tackle at - Morfey»* brewery, this afternoon, Wfllmm Mangos, aged 19 years, of fered a fracture of thepelvis,ahd'was admitted to the Buller Hospital, where an X-ray examination Was^’ihade,^ His condition was reported to Dg sat-' isfactory to-night. ~ •....,