RIVETER KILLED
HIT BY FALLING IRON PLATE L Per Press Association. ! INVERCARGILL, July 19. While engaged in riveting work today on the steamer Earnslaw, which is at present undergoing her annual overhaul at Queenstown, Orkney James Stevenson, aged 32, married, with a child aged three, was killed when an iron plate weighing loOlbs. used for conveying coal from the wharf to the sh’pL bunkers, fell on him. He received a severe fracture of the skull, and it is thought that his neck was broken. At the time of the accident the Earnslaw was moored three feet from the wharf, and Stevenson was standing on a chafing board between the ship and the wharf, his head being just above the level of the raised portion around the edge of the wharf. The vibration arising from the riveting operations caused the pin holding the plate to slip out of position, and the plate fell on Stevenson ’s head. A doctor was immediately summoned, but Stevenson, who had been lifted on to the wharf, died just as he arrived.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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