MEN FALL FROM HEIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1929, Page 11

MEN FALL FROM HEIGHT

TWO REMARKABLE ESCAPES MACHINE CATCHES MAN IN ROOF. FLUNG HIM TO THE FLOOR NAKED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Two men had remarkable escapes from serious injury to-day. One of them fell from a height of 40 feet and the other j from a height of 27 feet. | The first accident occurred when George Hutchinson, a pipe-fitter of Upper Hutt, fell 27 feet while working in the Lower Hutt railway workshops. Hutchinson, who is employed by Messrs A. and T. Burt, Ltd., was putting bolts in the ceiling near some machinery when he had his clothes caught by a machine and torn completely off him. He was then flung to the ground. The free ambulance was summoned and he was removed to the public hospital suffering from a fractured left wrist, shock and abrasions to the chest, neck and right arm. The man who fell 40 feet was G. Williams, 11 Elizabeth Street, Lower Hutt, and he escaped with lesser injuries than Hutchinson. Williams, who is a storeman at MeDuff’s, Ltd., at the corner of Cuba and Dixon Streets, fell through a skylight there at 3.10 p.m. and sustained an incision wound on the right eye and abrasions to the face and hands.