HAND AMPUTATED
CAUGHT IN MACHINERY A complete amputation of his rigW hand at the wrist was suffered W Patrick McSwigan, aged 19. a machinist, of 33 Norman's Hill Road, Onehunga, when his band was ca . ufil the knives of a planing machine yesterday morning. . ,• lllor The youth was at work in , vard of Smith and Smith, Newmarket, adjusting fo r known aa a "jointer,'Mvhich..nsed W sharpening the knives of a I machine. ~m . A- St. John ambulance was Auck>moned and he was taken o t- n( j land Hospital suffering from jj«kg * loss of blood. His condition last mga was reported to b© not serious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23220, 14 December 1938, Page 14
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