ACCIDENTS AND NATALITIES.
NARROW ESCAPE. [Per Press Association".] WAIHI, September 12. Last night two men, named Thomas Owens aud Charles Lloyd, were engaged remo ving the fastenings" from some heavy pipes when they slipped and struck the men a severe blow. Owen was hytled off the staging into a space 15ft below, and struck a narrow staging across a shaft descending 300 ft. In another moment h« would havo rolled off and fallen into the abyss, but. two men at work there made a grab afc his clothes and caught him- just in time. Both Owen and Lloyd were con; siderably injured, the latter in the knee and shoulder and the former in the baok. j Further particulars of the accident show that the staging on which Owen landed in falling consisted of a single 9in plank, and had there been the slightest deviation in the manner of his landing on the plank nothing could havo saved' him. He would have continued to fall to the bottom of the shaft, 300 ft. down.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7808, 12 September 1903, Page 5
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