FALL IN WELL

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31409, 30 June 1967, Page 12

FALL IN WELL

A Christchurch Drainage Board employee, Royce Giles, of 36 Truman road, suffered a compound fracture of his left leg when he fell about 12ft on to a concrete floor in the Randolph street pumping station yester-

day afternoon. The concrete pump well, the floor of which is 25ft below the ground, was being painted when the accident happened. Mr Giles was about halfway down the almost vertical iron steps when he fell, fracturing his leg just above the ankle. A St. John ambulance was called at 2.38 p.m. The driver, Mr D. J. Diggs, after briefly examining Mr Giles, who was conscious but dazed with shock, ordered the NeillRobertson stretcher by radiotelephone. Mr Giles was bleeding profusely from the wound where the broken bone had pierced his flesh. Mr Diggs and the volunteer first-aid nurse with him, Mrs A. Glasgow, cut away his overalls and applied dressings. They then put an air-splint on to immobilise Mr Giles’s leg. The stretcher was lowered down, Mr Giles was strapped to it and his fellow workmen hauled the stretcher up on ropes attached to the head of it.

Mr Giles was in the Christchurch Hospital less than 35 minutes after he was injured. His condition last evening was reported to be satisfactory. ,