GROUND ENGINEER'S DEATH
♦ VERDICT AT INQUEST (PB.BSS iSSOCUTIUB TKLSORAU.) PALMERSTON NORTH, May 26. "From a report made by the Government Analyst, it semes quite clear that this lubricating oil drum contained some fraction of petroleum distillate which caused the explosion," said the Coroner (Mr Graham), at an inques' this morning, into the death of Frederick Charles Norton, aged 53, ground engineer for Union Airways. The verdict was that Norton was accidentally killed at the Milson aerodrome on May 3. through the explosion of an oil drum from which he was removing the top with an acetylene plant. The Coroner added that no-blame was attachable to the authorities at the aerodrome. It would be as well he said, to issue a warning to all handling these drums to see that they were free from anything in the nature of petroleum. This accident illustrater" the danger of cutting open a drum which contained pptrol or oil not of e high-flash point. Crankcase drainingr were likely to give off gas, for the removal of which it was necessary jus J <:o steam the drums and valves.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22103, 27 May 1937, Page 9
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