FATAL QUARRY ACCIDENT.
DUNEDIN FOREMAN FINED. {BY TELEGRAPH. —TRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Wednesday. Alexander O'Neill, foreman of the cooperation quarry, was fined £5 and costs for failing to comply with the regulations under the Stone Quarries Act, in not carrying ori working so as to prevent dangerous falls. The charge arose,out of a fatal accident at the quarry in December. The magistrate held, that a visual examination of tho face of the quarry by defendant was inadequate, although he pointed out that no particular method of examination was laid down in the statute.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19302, 15 April 1926, Page 13
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92FATAL QUARRY ACCIDENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19302, 15 April 1926, Page 13
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