SULPHUR DUST IGNITED
THE CHEMICAL WORKS FATALITY [Pub United Press Association.] WANGANUI, June 23. A verdict that John Oscar Bovey, chemical manure -works labourer, of Wanganui, died at Kcmpthorne, Prosser, _ and Co.’s works at Aramoho on April 23 last as a result of injuries suffered when working on a sulphur elevator, the cause of death being asphyxia from sulphur dioxide gas, was returned by the coroner (Mr S. M. Dixon) at Wanganui to-day. The inquiry was conducted as a result of a fire at the works, when Boyey and several other men were engaged in work attendant upon the unloading of sulphur from trucks by means or an elevator. The evidence of the men working with Bovey in the elevator compartment was that when a belt was replaced on a pulley the elevator ran back, and a spark was created, which ignited the sulphur dust. Stuart Mitchell, an inspector of machinery, said the elevator was the standard equipment- designed to meet all normal use, plus a margin of safety.
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Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 15
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169SULPHUR DUST IGNITED Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 15
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