WARMED EXPLOSIVE ON FIRE
FATAL ACCIDENT AT .ORINGI.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Dannevirke, Last Night.
At the inquiry into the death of Michael Culloty, a contractor who was killed at Oringi on Wednesday, it was shown that an employee put 20 plugs of gelignite in a kerosene tin which was placed on the embers of a fire for the purposes of warming them. The employee left the tent, leaving Culloty sitting on a bunk. An explosion occurred soon afterwards, Culloty’s right thigh bein' badly lacerateil. He died soon afterwards from haemorrhage and shock. In returning a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence the coroner, Mr. Dobson, said it was a case of misadventure.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1929, Page 9
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