WORKMAN ELECTROCUTED.
UNPROTECTED COPPER CABLE STATE COAL YARD FATALITY. * fBT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. A married man, James Ernest Williams, 32 years of age, was electrocuted in the State coal yard this afternoon. Deceased and two other men were working at a circular saw driven by an electric motor connected to a pole in the yard by an uncovered copper cable. He turned on the current to start the motor and when walking away must have come in contact with the cable. He was picked up dead with the cable across his body*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 8
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