YOUNG MAN KILLED BY ELECTRIC SHOCK.
CORONER COMMENTS THAT EXPLICIT ORDERS SHOULD BE ISSUED. Per Fress Association. TIMARU, September 21. At Orari on Saturday afternoon, a voung man, Michael Mavion, was kill" ed bv an electric shock whilst measuring the height of the transmission line from Coleridge. The evidence at the inquest showed that Maylon was endeavouring to ascertain the height of the wires by means of a Chesterman metallic tape. Ihe tape was carried by the wind along the wire to the pole, where it touched an iron guard and produced sparks. Maylon received a shock, from which he died five minutes later. The Coroner added a rider: “In my opinion, explicit instructions safeguarding the lives of men should have been issued by those in authority when giving orders to men to measure the
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17647, 21 September 1925, Page 7
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