DEATH OF WATERSIDER.
SAPETY HOOKS SHOULD BE USED SAYS CORONER.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
“The evidence satisfies me that in the interests of men engaged in working cargo safety hooks should he used,” was a rider attached to a verdict given by the Coroner, Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at an (inquest to-day. A waterside worker named James David Kirkwood, while engaged at the steamer Rangitiki on Tuesday evening, was struck by an empty tray which fell from a hook on to the wharf and he died later in the hospital. The Coroner’s vqrdiict was that the jdeocaged was killed whilst engaged in loading operations on the overseas liner Rangitiki by being struck on the head by a falling cargo tray, part of the loading equipment.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 December 1929, Page 5
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