WORKER ELECTROCUTED.
FATALITY AT FRANKTON. [BY. TELEGBAPH.— OWN COSSBSPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Friday. A married man named Ernest Holt, aged 50 years, who resided in River Bead, Claudelands. and who was employed as an electric linesman by the Government, w&a electrocuted while working in the tranaformer station at the Government railway workshops, Frankton, this morning. He was standing on an insulated box adjusting clips at the back of a switchboard, when the back of his hand accidentally came into contact with a live wire, and he immediately fell back dead into the arms of a fcilow workman.' An inquest wa« by Mr, H. A. Young, S.M., this afternoon, and after formal evidence of identification had been gives, wm adjourned until io-morrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 8
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