WORKER FATALLY HURT.
j FOOT CAUGHT IN MACHINE. ' [BY TELEGRAPII. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] j WELLINGTON, Friday. j 'An inquest concerning "the death of H enry Thomas Patterson, who died in ,tho Wellington Hospital on January 13, shortly after admission, with both legs badly crushed as the result of his having been caught in a mixer at the Gasco Brick Company s works at Miramar, was held before Mr. W. G. Riddell, JS.M., coroner, to-day. The evidence was to the effect that Fatterson evidently stood up on either Side of a mixer for the purpose of oiling a bearing which was just above the machine, and that in getting down from this position he slipped his foot into it. It was necessary to dismantle the machine partly in order to release him, and this occupied an hour and twenty ininutes. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 10
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146WORKER FATALLY HURT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 10
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