SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
RAILWAY WORKER'S INJURY^
ENGINE SEVERS HAND.
AMPUTATION OF ARM FOLLOWS.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday.
A shocking accident happened to a rail, way employee in the Thorndon railway yard to-night. Mr. T. Townshend, whose duty it was to load coal into buckets prior to its being transferred to locomotives, fell down and came to rest with his left arm lying across one of the train rails.
An engine passed just then, the wheels passing over the left wrist and severing the hand. The free ambulance was summoned and the injured man was removed to tho hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the arm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 10
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