PLUCKY ENGINEER
STOPPING AN ENGINE ACCIDENT TO POWER PLANT Owing to a serious accident at Forbes, jSTew South Wales, lately, in the power-house, the town was deprived of electric light. Mr. B. Bain, a young Scottish engineer, employed at the power-house, risked his life in an endeavour to stop tho engine, and to prevent the delicato parts of tho steam engine in the same room being damaged by flying pieces. Ho rushed to the oil engine while it was throwing large pieces of castings to all parts of the room, and pushed up tho feedcocks. To his dismay, lie discovered the lovers would not stay shut off. Mr. Bain, realising tho danger to other machinery, hung determinedly on to tho feed-cock levers with both hands. A large section of tho machinery fell .on his left arm, temporarily incapacitating it. Despite the pain, he hung on to the second lever in the darkness until tho machine stopped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21494, 18 May 1933, Page 16
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