A NOTABLE FEAT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 November 1926, Page 5

A NOTABLE FEAT.

MANY INJURIES SET RIGHT. . LABOURER’S SEVERE ACCIDENT. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 5. Details of what was described as a miraculous escape from death and a notable feat in the restoration of damaged limbs, were unfolded xa. the Supreme Court to-day, when Mr Justice Adams ivas asked to assess the damages to be awarded to Michael Carroll, a freezing works employee (Mr Hall Skelton), against the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company, Ltd.. (Mr Bieh.jnond), arising out of an accident m which plaintiff .was the victim. Carrol was in the employ of the company, and on February 27 last was engaged in the loading of dairy produce into railway trucks from the freezing store on King’s Wharf. His coat was caught in one of the trucks, and lie was dragged between the trucks and a : pillar on the siding. The space between - the truck and the pillar was only a few inches in width, and Carroll was so badly crushed that he sustained three fractures of the pelvis. His bladder was crushed, his hips injured and his spine was broken above and below the waist. Carroll was treated at the Auckland Hospital and is now able to get about with the aid of a reinforced leather jacket. Claim -was made for £2750 as general damages and £137 13s 6d as special damages. He was awarded by the Court £1250, which had been paid- , into Court by the defendant company. ; Costs were left for adjustment between A; the parties with liberty to apply to the Court if they could not agree. ' The nature of the injuries sustained by Carroll were explained to the Court by Dr. Neil McDougall with', aid of radiographs taken when Carroll was admitted to the hospital and photographs taken this week illustrating how the, -, breaks had been repaired by the treaty hj. i ment given. '*• .1. A» - : Other medical witnesses who had at-= ;; tended Carroll in hospital gave evidence as to the possibility of .plaintiff being able to work in future. . They wers unanimous that he would not be able to do any heavy manual labour, but suggested that he could undertake handicraft or any work that would not involve active locomotion or a heavy strain upon the spine. Among other occupations it was suggested that Carroll could attend to a lift or any other - machinery controlled by levers.