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RIVETTER KILLED 8y Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, July 19. While engaged in rivetting work -today on the steamer Eamslaw, which is at present undergoing her annual overhaul at Queenstown, Orkney James Stevenson, aged 32, married, with one child aged three, was killed when an iron plate weighing 1501 b used for conveying coal from the wharf to the ship’s bunkers, fell on him. He received a severe fracture of the skull, and it is thought that’ his neck was broken. At the time of the accident the Earnshaw was moored three feet from the wharf, and Stevenson was standing on a chafing board between the ship and the wharf, his head being just above the level of the raised portion around the edge of the wharf. The vibration arising from the rivetting operations caused the pin holding the plate to siip out of position, and the plate fell on Stevenson's head. A doctor was Immediately summoned, but Stevenson, who had been lifted on to the wharf, died just as he arrived.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20165, 20 July 1935, Page 8
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