ELECTRICIAN HURT IN FALL DOWN LIFT-WELL.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, February i. Charles Williams, a young electrician, while working at Hamilton Chambers, Lambton Quay, slipped and fell four floors down a lift well. He was assisting in the wiring of the lift well in the building and was standing at the entrance to the well on the fourth floor, when in some unaccountable manner he slipped and fell to the bottom. It so happened that at the time the floor of the well was being laid down over iron machinery, and Williams’s fall was to some extent broken by landing on a board resting in a slanting position against one side. A carpenter engaged in the work was hand}’, and he lifted the injured man out into the corridor. The city ambulance was called and Williams was taken suffering from injuries to his back, abrasions to his left fland and shock.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 7
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