FALL UNDER WAGGON
SHUNTING ACCIDENT MAN'S SERIOUS INJURIES ;• [BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NELSON, Saturday During s shunting operations Brightvater this morning. Mr. Benjamin Parsons, aged 32, with two children, slipped uifder a loaded waggon which passed over his left leg; and left hand, the fingers of which were severed. It is not yet known whether the man's leg will have to b# amputated. Nurses in a near by maternity home gave first aid, and later the man, who was recently transferred from Wellington, was brought, to Nel' sou Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22481, 27 July 1936, Page 8
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