DANGEROUS WORK
ON OPEN LINE KILLED WHILE UNDER CARRIAGE Per Press .Association TE Kum, August 14. At the inquest on R. G. MoClatchy, who died as the result of being crushed while working under a carriage in the railway yards on Friday, the evidence showed that deceased was working under a carriage on the shunting line instead of upon the siding when . the trucks were shunted into the carriage, the shunter not knowing deceased was there. , A verdict was returned of accidental death through being crushed under a carriage owing to it being moved while deceased was working under it. Deceased should not have worked under the carriage on an open line without placing signals. There was nothing to indicate his presence under the carriage, and no blame was attachable to anyone.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 6
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132DANGEROUS WORK New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 6
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