FATAL ACCIDENT AT HUTT RAILWAY WORKS
INSUrriCIENT CLEARANCE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The inquest was opened on Saturday with regard to the death at Petone of Henry Cooper, a boilermaker, employed by the Railway department, who was injured at the Hutt railway workshops on May 1. ' Evidence was given that the truck that had passed several times before in safety fouled some heaters standing by the side of the track through a stanchion on the side of the truejt leaning over at an angle. The heaters were in a row, and, under instructions, had been given a clearance of at least two feet from tho rails. When one fell it fouled the next, and so on along tho row, several men being caught. Tho heaters were about seven feet high. A witness said that tho deceased said that the heaters were to be two feet clear of the rails. The instruction was not two feet clear of the truck. Tho truck was hauled along by a wiro rope from tho traverser. Tho hearing was adojurned.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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177FATAL ACCIDENT AT HUTT RAILWAY WORKS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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