"SHOWING HOW IT HAPPENED."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 9

"SHOWING HOW IT HAPPENED."

" Showing just how sb accident happened is sometimes serious business," said the adjuster ,of an American accident insurance company. '' The settlement of" a claim isn't made any easier by having some reckless person insisting on illustrating just how the thing occurred and then losing a ha.nd, an arm, or perhaps his life, before your very eyes. "I shall never forget an elevator accident that occurred in the early days of my adjusting. The elevator was in an old building which had been remodelled for apartments and offices. "A tenant rang the, elevator bell "on. one of the upper floors. As there Was no response to his signal, he put his head over the metal lattice work that enclosed the shaft to see if the elevator was up or down. Just .then the elevator started, the heavy weights came down and crushed his skull. .

" When I came to look the ground over the 1 janitor insisted on showing me just how the man met his death. As an illustration .he put his head out into the elevator shaft. Again the elevator started, the weights down as before, and instead ""ot claim tjO settle, there were two, al-

though of course the' -Lit;fc ow set aside on theground 0,. 0 v v _. . lessness. - " . "Another case v, a-, a- "■ o> "• r„ * «, employed in a steas 1 Jr ,;i r ! fingers so .crushed U.ao 1 \v was necessary. T?ho drr I j attempt -to - sho\y n.c "i-. 'thing .-'happened,' v o ,t. i* her entire hand an ! r.nipu I necessary above tire vvutt. "Nowadays when I g-o <o ', of an accident 3 sr-y: 'Give . particulars, show me the p V.. e . position of the injure.. I j «*; - • for heav/en's,sake don't d;> a - O accident for the srlce of ► . just how.' ''