MEN SCALDED BY STEAM
Pipe In Boiler Room Bursts
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 17.
Two men were scalded, one seriously, when a steam pipe burst in the boiler room of the Wellington railway station about 7.30 p.m. today. Mr B. Ennis, a plumber, of the railway workers’ camp, Aotea quay, suffered scalding to the whole of his body, and shock. Mr W. Eden, a plumber, of Trafalgar street, Lower Hutt, suffered scalding to both arms and shock. The accident occurred as Mr Ennis was descending a ladder in the boiler room after repairing gas mains. The ladder slipped and struck the main steam pipe from one of the boilers, bursting the pipe.
Mr Ennis suffered the full force of the escaping steam. Mr Eden was standing nearby, and was sprayed with boiling water about the arms.
The pipe could not be shut off from the valve at the boiler, and another worker had to rush from the boiler room, in the basement, to the roof of the station to turn off the supply of water.
Both men were taken to the Wellington Public Hospital, where Mr Ennis’s condition was later reported as satisfactory. Mr Eden was treated and discharged.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 12
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