LIFT NOT FOOL-PROOF
CORONER’S COMMENT AT INQUEST. MAN’S FATAL FALL DOWN WELL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. “I am satisfied the locking device on the lift gate was not fool-proof and that Anderson should not have been able to open the door,” said the coroner, Mr. W. Gilbertson, J.P., at an inquest concerning the death of Keith Charles Anderson, who fell down a lift well in the Commercial Travellers’ Building on February 18, sustaining injuries which proved fatal next day. “Obviously the mechanism was defective;” he said. He recorded t; finding that Anderson died through falling down the lift shaft. The coroner said that in a reconstruction of the accident it was apparent that Anderson went back to his office out of the lift, returning to the lift shortly afterwards. The light being out, he pulled open the outer lift gate and fell down the shaft on to the lift below.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1935, Page 5
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