FATAL INJURIES TO MAN’S HEAD
DETONATOR EXPLOSION PROBABLE CAUSE (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 30The explosion of a detonator wnue he was clamping it to a fuse with nl- - at Tongaporutu on Saturday morning is believed to have caused tne injuries from which Herbert HUP O’Donnell, aged 51, died not long afterwards. , He was a road surfaceman employe by the Ministry of Works. Grievously wounded about the head, he was foun“ by nearby residents on the floor of a shed. The residents heard the sound of « explosion. , M Mr O’Donnell died in an while being taken to the New rv' mouth Hospital.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 8
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