ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 15

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL MISHAP TO RIVETER. While engaged in riveting work yesterday on the steamer Earnslaw, which is at present' undergoing her annual overhaul at Queenstown, Orkney James Stevenson, aged 32, a married man, with a child aged three, was fcillea when-an iron plate weighing 1501 b, used for coneying coal from the wharf to the ships’ bunkers, fell on him. He received a severe fracture of the skull, and it is thought that his neck was broken. At the time of the accident, the Earnslaw was moored 3ft from the wharf, and Stevenson was standing on the chafing board between the ship and the wharf, his head, being just above the havel of the raised portion around the edge of the wharf. The vibration arising from the riveting operations caused the pin holding the plate to slip out of position, and the plate fell on Stevenson’s head. A doctor was immediately summoned, but Stevenson, who had been lifted on to the wharf, died just as he arrived.—lnvercargill message. < CYCLE FATALITY. Otto Robert White, aged 17, a sbn of Mr Otto C. White, hairdresser, of New Brighton, was killed’ when the motor cycle he was riding in Page’s road yesterday afternoon struck tho rear of a carrier’s truck, owned by Mr E. L. Smith and driven by William Anderson Barclay. The pillion rider on the cycle, Frances Beardsley, aged 18, of Lonsdale street, New Brighton, was badly injured,’ and was admitted to Christchurch Hospital. White suffered severe head injuries and died within a few minutes of the accident.