SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6816, 21 September 1883, Page 5

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Skotstly before eleven o'clock yesterday morning a serious accident occurred to Mr. Samuel M. Smi th, foreman for Mr. J. J. Holland, contractor for the new store which is in course of erect .on for Messrs. McArtliur and Co., in Elliott-street. Mr. Smith, who is a bricklayer, wa3 engaged fixing a block to a crane, which is let into the brickwork, and stepped on the scaffolding off the ladder, to knock out the supporting wedges. Suddenly the whole staging gave way, and Mr. Smith was precipitated from a height of about 14 feet to the footpath, He fell heavily on his left side, and sustained a comminated fracture of the left forearm of a very painful character, so much so that the bone projected through the skin, besides which he received an ugly cut On the forehead. The injured man was at once taken to Dr. Tennent's surgery in Wellesley-street, but that gentleman Was absent. The attendance of Dr. Bayntun was soon afterwards procured, and he having temporarily bandaged the arm, recommended Mr. Smith's removal to the. Jjlospital. There he was received by Dr. Bond, who promptly set tho arm, and Mr. Smith then returned to his home, in Vincent-street. '