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No. 5.—Return of Accidents not Fatal— continued.

No. 6.—Return of Accidents which proved Fatal in connection with Machinery during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1902.

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Name and Address of Owner. Descriyttiou of Machinery. Name and Age of Person injured. [Nature of Accident, and Date. Cause of Accident and Remarks. Southland Implement and Engineering Company A. and T. Burt, Dunedin Drilling-machine .. J. Gould; aged 18 Wound inhand; 7th December, 1901 Right hand and left arm bruised ; 3rd January, 1902 Crushed finger badly; 11th January, 1902 Finger twisted; 28th January, 1902 Finger cut off; 4th February, 1902 Thumb partly cut off; 20th February, 1902 Right hand cut and crushed ; 24th February, 1902 Crushed .foot; 25th February, 1902 Finger slightly cru-hed ; 1st March, 1902 Top taken off finger ; 23rd March, 1902 Arm injured; 26th March, 1902 Fing-rs bruised; October, 1901 Drilling holes in plate without holding down, Coppersmith's curv-ing-rollers J. Ovens; aged 15 Accidental. Returned to work 21st April, 1902. P. and D. Duncan, Ashburton Traotion-engine Riohard Williams; aged 27 Robert Essex; aged 16 While assisting in repair of engine king-bolt fell on his finger. A. and T. Burt, Dunedin Lathe Caught in lathe. New Zealand Government Railways, Petone E. A. Moore, Waikiwi Radial drilling-ma-chine G. Brundell; aged 17 Fingers caught in cog-wheels while cleaning maohine when in motion. Saw-bench F. Best; aged 27 Crosscutting rabbit-boxes. Aulsebrook and Co., Christchurch Aulsebrook and Co., Christchurch Biscuit-outting machine Biscuit cutting machine T. French ; aged 19 James Coombs; aged 19 5 In stopping the machine to clear cutters of dough he did not put off belt properly ; the machine started, and cutters came down on his hand. Flesh-wound. Accidentally put foot between working arm of skip-motion and frame of biscuit-cutting machine. Fingers caught in cogs of back gear through hand slipping. W. J. A. Dutch, Wellington Lathe, with back gear George Cowan; aged 16 Beaney and Sons, Auckland Lathe D. Stricket, aged 25 Want of oare. J. McGregor and Co., Dunedin Drilling-machine . . W. Strang; aged 35 Sleeve of shirt got caught with drill. The Crown Iron Works Company, Chri-tchurch H. E. Shacklock (Limited), Dun edin Masefield and Co., Auckland Hydraulic press .. Frank Large; aged 20 A die dropped when being placed in the machine. Lift William Hambleton ; aged 62 E. P e ngelly ; aged 17 Broken ankle; 6th March, 1902 Arm cut; 31st July, 1901 Was employed overhauling the lift, and allowed it to run down. Emery-wheel Carelessness. Away from work two weeks and a half.

Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name of Person : Nature of Accident, injureJ. and Date. Cause of Accident, and Remarks. Cluett and Potts, Toko, Taranaki Sawmill .. •• John Ball; aged 21 Instantaneous d ea i h ; 1st April, 1901 Arm broken and internal injuries; 19 th August, 1901 Fracture of arm and dislocation of spine; 5th September, 1901 Arm fractured and chest badly crushed; 22ud September, 1901 In s t antaneous death; 23rd Sept ember, 1901 2nd November, 1901 Caught in belt of vertical saw. No one saw the accident. Kauri Timber Company, Te Knpuru, Northern Wairoa Circular-saw bench A. H. West; aged 24 Dredging machinery j M. M. Elliott ; aged 32 Piece of timber coming over the dragsaw struck deceased. His duties did not require him to be behind the saw. Clothing of deceased caught round shaft while he was going to oil the friction-straps. Wakamarina Golden Point Dredgng Company, Blenheim Teviot Gold-dredg ing Company, Otago Driving-shaft of ele A.C. Cormack; vator on dredge aged 22 Slipped on gangway, and, catching hold of shaft to save himself, was drawn round it. Robert Gibbons, Kopu, Thames Sawmill at Topuni.. Robert Walker; aged 48 Deceased was standing between the driving-shaft and pulley, pulling belt round the bottom of the pulley, when his hand got taken round the pulley. Deceased was oiling the cog-wheels of a pug-mill with a spoon. The spoon dropped, and as he reached over to piok it up his necktie caught and he was drawn into the winding-drum. Through the elevator becoming choked, the belt was thrown off. Deceased attempted to replace the belt, and in doing so mounted a ladder which leaned against the beam from which the shaft was suspended. Either his arm caught in the shaft or the ladder broke, for he was drawn round the shaft, the legs being dashed against the beam overhead. C. Myers and Sons, Waikiwi Brickmaking- John Sheddon; machine aged 38 Wright, Stephenson, and Co. Dunedin Manure-mixing ma- John Wright, chinery aged 34 Caught in shafting ; 18th November, 1901