MAN CAUGHT IN MACHINE

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1940, Page 4

MAN CAUGHT IN MACHINE

SUSPENDED IN MID-AIR. SYDNEY, November 18. When Alfred William Dunn, 49, of Myrtle Street, Stanmore, became caught in a conveyor at North Sydney Gasworks, yesterday morning, he was suspended in mid-air, with his head towards the ground, for nearly two hours. Although he was suffering intense agony during this' ordeal, he smoked a cigarette and talked to ’ his workmates until he was given anaesthetics. He was admitted to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital suffering from extensive lacerations to the left side, severe abrasions to the hands, and a fracture of the left thigh. When Dunn was greasing a charcoal conveyor one of his hands was caught in the machinery and he was dragged along for about five yards and then his. body was caught between steel girders and the conveyor. The motion of the conveyor upended him, and his body was suspended in the air. _ Workmates turned off the power and assisted Central District Ambulance men to give him sal-volatile until Dr. Jamieson arrived and administered anaesthetics. When Dunn was pressed against the girders his thighs became caught in the conveyor and the muscles protruded through the skin. The only means by which he could be released was by removing the girders, and his workmates laboured feverishly to remove the bolts. After he had been released he was lashed to a 4 stretcher and carried down 200 steps to the waiting ambulance waggon.