FALL OF STEAM HEATER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 12

FALL OF STEAM HEATER.

RAILWAY WORKER KILLED.

OTHER MEN IN HOSPITAL.

TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED.

ACCIDENT AT LOWER HUTT,

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday.

While unloading steam heaters at the railway workshops at; Lower Hutt about 8.30 o'clock this morning, four men were injured through one of the heaters being knocked from a motor-lorry and falling upon them. One of the men died in hospital. The lorry, laden with steam heaters from Messrs. A. and T. Burt's virarehouse, had drawn up in the boilermakers' shop alongside a railway line to be unloaded, when a truck came along the line and one of tho uprights struck a heater, causing 14 to fall. Details are:—• Killed. Henry Cooper, an employee of the railway -workshops, aged 38, who resides at 6, Moir Street, Wellington. Injured. Joseph Saunders, an employee of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, aged 52, %vho resides at 494, Adelaide Road, Wellington. Harold Moon, an employee of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, aged 47, who resides! at 390, The Parade, Island Bay. Hujjh Patrick Ingles, an employee of Messrs. A. and T. Burt, who resides at 25, Majoribanks Street, Wellington.

The men were conveyed to the hospital by the City ambulance. It was found that Cooper g had been severely crushed and he succumbed to his injuries, which consisted of head wounds and concussion, at 2.30 p.m. Sstmders and Moon were also severely injured, but Ingles escaped more lightly. They are all suffering from head injuries.