“MISTAKE MADE”
Collapse of Platform Causes Man’s Death
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, February 25.
“Someone blundered,” said the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, to-day at an inquest into the death of Herbert Green, labourer, aged 55, who was killed at Kempthorne Prosser’s Westfield works when a wooden platform collapsed while he was assisting in its demolition and he was thrown to tbe concrete floor.
The engineer at the works said he was not aware that he should have notified the scaffolding inspector that he was about to undertake the work. Pulleys and a winch were being used to demolish the platform. The coroner said a mistake had been made in removing the supports to the platform without adequate measures being taken to safeguard the men employed. It was like a man sitting ou a branch and sawing off tbe wrong end. A verdict of accidental death was returned. ,
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 17
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