DEFECTIVE LIFT GATE.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. Per Pgess Association. WELLINGTON, March 13. “I am satisfied that the locking device on the lift gate was not foolproof. Deceased should not have been able to open the door,” said the Coroner, Mr Gilbertson, J.P., at an inquest concerning the death of Keith Charles Anderson, who fell down a lift well in the Commercial Travellers’ Building on February 18, sustaining injuries which proved fatal the next day. Obviously the mechanism was defective, he said. He returned a verdict that deceased died through falling down the lift shaft. The Coroner said that in a „reconstruction of the accident it was apparent that deceased went hack to his office out of the lift. Returning to the lift shortly afterwards, the light being put, he pulled open the outer lift gate and fell down the shaft on to the lift below.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 90, 14 March 1935, Page 7
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