A LIFT ACCIDENT.
The London Standard of Dec. 12 relates the following : —Shortly after 10 o’clock last night, a serious accident occurred at Messrs Lewis’ new establishment in Cor-poration-street, Brirmingham, from the fall of ai hydraulic lift resulting in cloven persons being injured and taken to tho Hospital. The assistants of the firm employed in the grocery department had been wojking overtime, in preparation for Christmas, and being in a hurry to descend, eleven of them crowded upon the lift, which is raised and lowered bj’’ a wire ropo passing over a pulley at tho top and worked by hydraulic pressure. Either owing to the exceptionally excessive weight, or some defect in the apparatus, the wire ropo snapped, and tho lift and its occupants fell from the third storey, at least 40 feet in height. The shock was terrific, and the whole of the assistants were more or less injured and disabled. They were removed as quickly as possible to the General Hospital, where, in addition to shock, most of them had sustained fractured limbs or sprains, but only two wove detained.
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Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 130, 19 February 1886, Page 2
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