FOUR KILLED IN A BOILER
The inquest on four victims of a boiler-scaling accident at Shotton was held at Chester, when the jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death through misadventure," adding they did not rhink necessary precautions had been taken to safeguard the men at work in the boiler. John Robert Phillips, fireman, said it wa» his job to fire the boilers. He thought the job of flueing had been finished. No one told him the men were scaling the boiler. Simply by force of habit he opened the valve and filled the boiler.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 12
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95FOUR KILLED IN A BOILER New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 12
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