WORKMAN KILLED
STRUCK BY ROCK
BLASTING ACCIDENT AT MOA POINT
Fatal head injuries were inflicted yesterday afternoon upon Frederick Charles Liddy, a married man, aged 47, of 58 Breaker Bay Road, when he was hit by a piece of rock blasted from the hillside at Moa Point. Mr. Liddy was 200 feet away from the point of the explosion, and the furthest from it of the men on the job. The shot is believed to have been a normal one, but rock was hurled into the air in an unexpected direction, and other men received minor hurts.
Mr. Liddy died in hospital about an hour after his arrival there in the Free Ambulance.
There were forty men working at Moa Point on the cutting-off of the top of the hill. Explosives have been used for some time to loosen the rock, and yesterday afternoon's accident was the first of its kind there. Before the shot was fired the warning whistle was sounded and everybody had retired to what was considered a safe distance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 15
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173WORKMAN KILLED Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 15
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