ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED BY'FALL OF EARTH

(Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, October 31. A simple accident, which was attended by fatal results, occurred at the formation work in Carrington road about 9 a.m. to-day, when an old resident of New Plymouth, Thomas Molloy, was killed by a fall of earth. i The deceased was a member of a party of four working under a co-operative contract scheme, and was engaged in cutting back a bank nine feet high. Molloy undermined the bank for a couple of feet preparatory to levering the earth down. Thy first intimation his mates had of the accident was a thud and a groan. They then saw Molloy’s legs protruding from the fall of earth. On Molloy being uncovered it was found that life was extinct. ) The left ribs were crushed, and the left thigh broken. The deceased leaves a widow and an adult family of three. A FRACTURED KNEE-CAP A married man namyd James Craig, aged 40 years, who lives at 11 Mary street. Port Chalmers, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a fractured knee-cap. He was assisting in the breaking up of the steamer Kahika at Port Chalmers when an acetone burner slipped and struck him on _ the knee, inflicting the y injury described.