FOUR MEN HURT.

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1929, Page 5

FOUR MEN HURT.

Knocked Off Lorry.

ONE SUCCUMBS.

WELLINGTON, May 1.

While unloading steam heaters at the railway workshops at Lower Hutt, about 8.30 o’clock this morning, four men were injured through one of the heaters being knocked from a motor lorry, and falling upon them. It Was ascertained that a lorry load of steam heaters from Messrs A. and T. Burt’s warehouse had drawn up in the boilermakers’ shop alongside a railway line. While the lorry was waiting to be unloaded, a truck came along the line, and one of the uprights, which was a few inches out of plumb, struck a heater, and caused it to fall from the lorry. The falling heater struck four men, injuring them all. Those injured are: — Henry Cooper, an employee of the railway workshops, aged 38, who resided at 6, Moir Street, Wellington.

Joseph Saunders, an employee of Messrs A. and T. Burt, aged 52, who resides at 494, Adelaide Road, Wei lington. Harold Moon, an employee of Messrs A. and T. Burt, aged 47, who resides st 390, The Parade, Island Bay.

Hugh Patrick Ingles, an employee of Messrs A. and T. Burt, who resides at 25, Maoribanks Street, Wellington. The injured men were conveyed to the hospital by the City Ambulance. It was found that Cooper had been severely crushed, and he succumbed to his injuries, which consisted of head wounds and concussion, at 2.30 in the afternoon.

Saunders and Moon Were also severeIv injured, but Ingles escaped more lightly. They are all suffering from head injuries.