DEATH OCCURS
Sequel To Accident At
Grant’s Hill
As the result of extensive electrical burns suffered when he came into contact with an UO.OOO volt electric switch at Grant’s Hill sub-station of the Public Works Department on July 26, Reginald Coales, a married man, aged 50, died in the Tlmaru Public Hospital yesterday.
The accident Occurred while Mr Coales was working in the steel structure at the sub-station. The Grant’s Hill sub-station on the outskirts of Tlmaru, controls the whole of the area covered by the South Canterbury Electric Power Board as well as the Timaru borough area. As a result of the accident Timaru, Waimate, Temuka, Geraldine and the area controlled by the Electric Power Board were deprived of power from 4 p.m. until 4.35 p.m., Mr Coales’s contact with the switch having put the lines out of action.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 4
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140DEATH OCCURS Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 4
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