SEVERE ELECTRIC SHOCK
LINESMAN IN HOSPITAL (Pur Pross Association.! FEILDING, this .lay. Through . an electric shock, Harold Smith, a married man with eight children, is now in hospital in a serious condition.
Smith, an employee of the ManawatuOroua Power Board, was working yesterday with a gang under the engineer of the board on repairs. The power lines had been disconnected, but the lines on the 'top of the poles were not. Smith was on a pole re-straining dead lines when his shoulder came in contact with an 11,000-volt line. He fell, but was caught in the dead linns, which prevented his fall to the ground 25ft. below.
Comrades lowered him by ropes in an unconscious condition, and he was taken to hospital.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 5
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122SEVERE ELECTRIC SHOCK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 5
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