WORKMAN KILLED IN 100 FEET FALL.
PLATFORM SUPPORT ON BUILDING SNAPS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 19. Falling a hundred feet W. J. Compton, a rigger working upon the new Courtenay Place post office in Cambridge Terrace, was so seriously injured to-day that he later succumbed. He was working on a platform at the top of a column shortly before one o’clock this afternoon when the accident happened. Without giving any warning a wire holding the platform snapped. Compton was flung downward. Unable to clutch at anything to stay his fall he crashed into the foundation well more than a hundred feet below. Other workmen rushed to the spot where he had fallen and the Free Ambulance was summoned. He was found to have suffered a compound fracture of both feet, and severe injuries to the left elbow, in addition to shock and internal injuries. Campton, who was employed by the Hansford, Mills Construction Company, lived in Hugh Street, off Adelaide Road. He was taken to the hospital, where he died at 5.45.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 43, 20 February 1931, Page 4
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