TOUCHED LIVE WIRE
LINESMAN KILLED By Telegraph—Press association BLENHEIM, May 31. While engaged on a main line inspection yesterday, Robert Leslie Hart,, aged 42, married, a linesman employed by the Marlborough Power Board, received a fatal electric shock. Harty, who had climbed a steel lattice tower to examine the insulators, apparently fell against an 11,000 volt high tension cable suffering fearful bums on an arm and leg and falling 34 feet to the ground. The accident was not discover .'! until the inspection gang, w'hlch had split up, reassembled at lunch time. Harty was a former King Country representative footballer and Marl-borough-Nelson swimming champion.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21051, 1 June 1938, Page 8
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103TOUCHED LIVE WIRE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21051, 1 June 1938, Page 8
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