PARTY CRUSHED.
Half-ton of Copper Falls on Engineers. MISHAP ABOARD S.S. ORMISTON. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 5, noon.) SYDNEY, March 5. While the steamer Ormiston was being overhauled at Cockatoo Dock half a ton of copper pipe broke from a sling and crushed a party of men in the engineroom. F. J. Ingram, sixth engineer, and R. B. Dobbins, a labourer, were killed. Arthur Hill, a fitter, suffered a broken thigh and S. Payne minor injury.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 1
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