WORKMAN FATALLY INJURED

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 100, 22 January 1927, Page 13

WORKMAN FATALLY INJURED

A VEBDIOT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

Mr. W. G. Itiddell, S.M. Coroner), conducted an inguest m the * Court yesterday, into the death of Henry Thomas Patterson (aged t2 ':, "J- 10 ,, 1 ~n the Wellington Public Hospital on . L Hurs day, January 13. as the result ot injuries received when his both legs M - badly crushed by being caught m a mixer at the Gaseo Brick Company s works at Miramar, the .-anie day. The evidence showed that 1 atterson, who was a married man, residing nt io .Fifeshire Avenue, Wellington, evidently stood up on either side of a mixer for the purpose of oiling a bearing which was just above the machine. and that m getting down from this position he accidentally slipped his foot nto it. It was necessary to partly dismantle the machine in order to extricate him. anti this , took an hour and twenty minutes. An ambulance was sent for mnmdiately the accident oceirreJ, and a doctor was in attendance within a very few minutes. The latter administered morphia and assisted in getting the deceased free. I lie company had never been told to provide a guard for any of its mixers, and there was no ne»d for Patterson to Imre stood where he did to oil the bearing He con Id have reached it from the side, and could also have stopped the machine had be so desired.; The deceased i';is an exi'criepeed marine engineer and a thorough trustworthy man at his job. A verdict of accidental death was returned.