BOILERMAKER KILLED AT PETONE WORKSHOPS.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 27. An inquest was opened on Saturday touching the death, at Petone, of Henry Cooper, a boilermaker, employed by the Railway Department, who was injured at the Hutt railway workshops. Evidence was given that an R waggon that had passed several times before in safety fouled some heaters standing by the side of the track through a stanchion on the side of the truck leaning over at an angle. The heaters were in a row, and, under instructions, had been given a clearance of at least two feet from the rails. When one fell it fouled the next and so on along the row, several men being caught. The heater? were about seven feet high. Cross-examined, a witness said that Cooper had said that the heater? were to be two feet clear of the rails The instruction was not that they were to be two feet clear of a truck. The truck was hauled along by a wire rope from a traverser. The inquest was adjourned to Wellington.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18769, 27 May 1929, Page 9
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