WORKMAN INJURED
PREMATURE EXPLOSION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WESTPORT, November 30,
4 When a charge of gtelignite exploded today when he was tamping a hole, John Penberth, aged 21, a married man employed by the Public Works Department on the BullerInangahua railway, was injured and taken to the Buller Hospital.
The tamping rod blew out and his head, face, and right arm suffered considerably. His condition tonight is fair.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 31
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