Worker Killed By Fall From Cage Into 78 Foot Well
P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 21. While working in a 78 foot well on the property of R. T. Wyatt, Ohangai, Hawera, at about 4 p.m. yesterday, Keith Couchman, aged about 20, fell from a cage in which he was seated to the bottom of the well. When hauled to the well top by means of a rope, he was found to he dead. Couchman was employed by L. S. Browning, well borer, of Bellblock, New Plymouth, and his parents are believed to live at Tehoe, near Hamilton. Couchman was lowered into the well in the cage and the first intimation that, anything was amiss was when he failed to respond to normal means of communication. The cage was hauled to the top and was found to be empty. A member of the Hawera Fire Brigade, H. L. Warner, wearing a gas mask, descended into the well and attached the rope to Couchman, who apparently had fallen head first into the water.
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Grey River Argus, 22 March 1947, Page 5
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