UNSUITABLE TYPE OF HOOK
DEATH OF WATERSIDER RESULTS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.
Giving a formal finding to-day concerning the death of a watersider, Ernest Douglas Croxton Davis, who died in hospital on March 21 after receiving injuries to the spine through being struck by a falling quarter of beef the coroner, Mr. Gilbertson, found the cause probably due to the use of an unsuitable type of meat hook, the point of which was inclined at too flat an angle in relation to the shank.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1934, Page 7
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