MAN ELECTROCUTED
SHOCK WHILE USING CLEANER.
(Per United Press Association.)
Greymouth, October 20.
An inquest was held to-day into the death yesterday of John Dimmond Watson, who was killed while using an Electrolux cleaner on a motor car. The finding of the Coroner, Mr W. Meldrum, was: “That deceased came to his death at Runanga by electrocution caused by a current of 230 volts passing through his body while x he was using an Electrolux cleaner in cleaning a motor car. The Electrolux cleaner appears to have been defective in that loose strands'of'flexible wire in the handle were touching the frame of the machine, and the fact that deceased was standing on sodden ground and was wearing wet carpet slippers completed the circuit of the current.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 7
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126MAN ELECTROCUTED Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 7
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