LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED
FAILED TO “ISOLATE” HIMSELF.
QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Invercargill,. Nov., 8.
At an inquest on John A. Leyden, who was electrocuted at the Winton substation, the officer in charge said that Leyden should have opened the switch or seen that someone else did.
“Would he not. rely on you to see that .the switches were right when you went out with him to show him the work?” asked the coroner.
“Not if the whole of a job had been given a man to do,” replied, witness. Leyden interrupted tha routine of the work and wanted to carry it out in another way, said witness. The rule was that a linesman going to work on the line must isolate himself or see that he was isolated, and he was responsible to safeguard himself. , / , . The coroner returned a formal verdict of accidentally killed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1932, Page 9
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