MEN INJURED BY FALLS.
CLOTHES CAUGHT IN MACHINE
FITTER'S LIFE ENDANGERED.
[by telegraph.—toess association.J WELLINGTON, Tuesday.
Two men had remarkable escapes from serious injury to-day, when one of them fell from a height of 40ft. and the other from a height, of 27ft. The first accident occurred when George Hutchinson, a pipe-fitter, of Upper Hutl, fell 27ft. while working in the Lower Hutt Railway Workshops. Hutchinson, who is employed by A. and T. Burt, Limited, was putting bolts :n the ceiling near some machinery when his clothes were caught by a machine and torn off him. He was then hurled to the ground. He was removed to the hospital suffering from a fracture of the left wrist, abrasions to the chest, neck and right arm and from shock.
The man who fell 40ft. was G. Williams, of Lower Hutt. He is a storeman nfc MeDuff's, Limited, at the corner of Cuba and Dixon Streets, and fell through a skylight there at 3.10 p.m. He sustained an incised wound on the right eye and abrasions to the face arid hands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 10
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179MEN INJURED BY FALLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 10
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