ELECTRIC SHOCK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 6

ELECTRIC SHOCK

MAN’S REMARKABLE ESCAPE

SYDNEY, December 16

Not many men receive an electric sho'k of 600 volts and live to tell what it was like. One of the few is Roy Colins, 38, a crane dogman, of Glebe, Sydney. “I felt as though I’d died and came back to life again/’ was his terse description of the experience.

Collins was working on ,a building in course of construction in the city, arid was being lowered in a dogbox and was holding the chains connected with the crane table, when wind caught the box and swung it against the overhead tramway wires. As the iron hand round the box touched the tram wires, the shock passed through Collins. “I remember Screaming,” said Collins, “and I felt as if my head had, been chopped off.” The box swung back, and Collins fell from it to an awning over the foot path. When ambulance officers arrived he was lowered to the street and taken to hospital. He was unconscious, hut revived under treatment, allhough his left arm was paralysed for several hours. He later fully recovered and went home.

Collins has led a charmed life during the last few years. He fell fifty feet from a wheat silo and bounced, but was not ihjurcd. Gnly a few scratches resulted, from a 15-feet fall down a lift well. ITe was not seriously injured when a piece of timber fell on. his head from forty feet above.