FATALITY AT HUTT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 13

FATALITY AT HUTT

FOUR MEN INJURED AT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS ONE SUCCUMBS, While unloading steam-heaters at the Railway Workshops at Lower Hutt about 8.30 o’clock yesterday morning four men were injured through one of the heaters being knocked from a motor-lorry and falling upon them. A "Dominion” reporter ascertained that a lorry load of steam-heaters fiom Messrs. A. and T. Burt’s warehouse had drawn up in the boilermakers shop, alongside a railway line. While the lorry was waiting to be unloaded, a truck came along the line, and one of the uprights, which was a few inches out of plumb, struck a heater and caused it to fall from the lorry. 'Che falling heater struck four men. injuring them all. Those injured were. HENRY COOPER, an employee of the Railway Workshops, aged 38, who resided at 6 Moir Street, Wellington. JOSEPH SAUNDERS, an employee of Messrs. A. an> T. Burt, aged 52, who resides at 494 Adelaide Road. Wellington. HAROLD MOON, an employee of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, aged 47, who resides at 390 The Parade, Island Bay. HUGH PATRICK INGLES, an employee of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, who resides at 25 Majoribanks Street. Wellington. The injured men were conveyed to the hospital by the City Ambulance. It was found that Cooper had been severely crushed, and he succumbed to his injuries, which consisted of head wounds and concussion, at 2.30 in the afternoon. Saunders and Moon were also severely injured, but Ingles escaped more lightly. They are all suffering from head injuries. .