FATAL EXPLOSION IN WORKSHOP
Man Killed Instantly ACETYLENE FLAME CAUSES OIL DRUM TO BLOW UP Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North. May 3. Killed instantly when using an oxyacetylene plant to cut the top off an empty lubricating oil drum. Frederick Charles Norton was the victim of a fatal explosion in the workshop of Union Airways Ltd.’s hangar at Milson aerodrome to-day. Mr. Norton was a married man. It is believed that the explosion as due to fumes remaining in the air-tight drum becoming ignited when the acetylene flame penetrated it. The iron I’d blew out with terrific force and inflicted shocking injuries to Mr. Norton's head. Another employee who was working a planing machine about six feet away escaped injury and no damage was done to the interior of the workshop or to tbe acetylene plant itself. The drum burst into flames, the blaze being suppressed with an extinguisher.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 10
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