SHOCK FROM POWER-LINE
(it TUJORAPB—PRSSS ASSOCIATION.)
CUBISTCHUIICH, This Day. While working on an electric line polo at Mount Somers yesterday, 'an Ashbuvton Power Board employee named Marshall received a shock from a 6'ooo-volt wire. He was unscrewing a nut, when the spanner slipped, and his shoulder came in contact with a live wire. He was badly burnt, and in falling to the ground, a distance of 20 tact, brokt his thigh.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1926, Page 6
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71SHOCK FROM POWER-LINE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1926, Page 6
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