CAUGHT BY LIFT
YOUTH LOSES FINGERS ACCIDENT IN CITY A youth, Charles Greenslade, aged IS, had three fingers severed when his left hand was caught in the mechanism of a moving lift in city premises early this afternoon. The accident occurred in Bond and Bond's premises in Commerce Street, where the lad was employed. He was in the lift and had his left hand on the rope when the lift began to move. The fingers were caught between the rope and the lift wheel, and three were torn off before the cage was I stopped. The hand was badly muti- | iated and it is expected that a fourth finger will have to be amputated, j The st. John Ambulance was quickly i on the scene and conveyed the youth jto the. hospital. He lives in Newingj ton Road, Henderson.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 1
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