ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 April 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

WATERSIDER INJURED. ' (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, April 29. j An accident occurred on the liner Durham last night. A heavy cargo derrick was taking the weight* of a sling -of cheese when the shackle carried away and the derrick crashed across 1 the combings of No. 3 hold. Fortunately no one was underneath, but a watersider named Michael Barry, who was at the winch, had his hand caught between the' derrick and the winch lever. His hand was badly gashed, and j his side and back were bruised.