WORKER’S LUCKY ESCAPE
ORDEAL ON TALL BUILDING. By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright. Melbourne, Jan. 18. William Thomson, a dogsman aged 29. had a remarkable escape, from death when a girder slipped from a steel sling 100 feet up. He clung desperately to it. The girder caught in the framework of the building after falling 30 feet, and a second girder fell on Thomson, pinning him to the first. His mate's levered the second girder from his body, and it crashed 70 feet. Thomson was taken to hospital injured in the hip and suffering from severe shock.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1930, Page 9
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