NGAKAWAU FATALITY

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1946, Page 2

NGAKAWAU FATALITY

INQUEST INTO YOUNG MINER’S DEATH A recommendation that work on the new road to Charming Creek mine be expedited in order to remove the possibility of similar fatalities occurring was contained in a rider added by the Coroner, Mr. C. H. Thomas, to the vbrdict returned on Saturday at an inquest into the death of a miner, Edward Nicholson, aged 28. married, of Ngakawau. , Aller the evidence of deceaseds companions on the truck, which was struck by a boulder falling from the overhanging hillside, and also that of other travellers on the train had been heard, the coroner returned a verdict that Nicholson’s death was due to a fracture of the base of the skull and shock. These injuries were caused when he was struck by a large piece of rock which was dislodged from the hillside and crashed on to deceased, who was riding on a coal truck when returning from his work at the Charming Creek mine on September fl. In the rider, the coroner recommended to the Mines Department and the Charming Creek Coy. that as there may be a likelihood of a similar accident occurring, as the result of rocks becoming dislodged from the hillside and falling on trucks going to and from the company’s mine, the work on the new road to the mine be expedited, and, in the meantime, that more frequent examinations should be made of the surroundings cf the track at present being used by the miners,.