ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

METAL PIT FATALITY. Thomas Robinson, aged forty-throe, single, residing at Nuggcty Creek, was killed yesterday afternoon by a fall of ; boulders in the metal pit at Manga- i rata, seven miles from Murchison. The deceased was in the employ of the Public Works Department. FALL FROM TRAIN. A man, as yet unidentified, was killed at the Amberlejr station last night through falling from a moving train. The body was dragged 200yds. A LINESMAN’S DEATH. At the inquest on Maurice O’Kane, aged nineteen, a linesman, employed by i the Hutt Valley Power Board, who be- | came entangled in the wires and fell from the top of a pole to the ground I at Porirua, the evidence showed that I deceased was engaged in wiring work, | and told an assistant to turn the curI rent on. While the 'assistant was do- ' ing this deceased, for some unexplained reason, climbed the pole again, and I was seen lying over the crossbar, with his feet on the wires. He was not then i wearing rubber gloves. The current was turned off,-and two men attempted to ! lower O’Xvane to the ground with a ropo, but ho slipped out of it and fell i about 14ft. His shoulder appeared to : take the weight of the fall, and this j caused injuries resulting in his death, j A verdict of accidental death was rei turned. Guo witness stated that a fall ; such as tho one deceased had had been I known to resuscitate a man after electrocution.