H—lsa

26

No. 5.—Return of Accidents (not Fatal) in connection with Machinery— continued.

Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name and Age of ' Person injured. ' Date and Nature of Accident. Cause of Accident, and Remarks. J. K. Jameson, Invercargffl Waitemata Sawmill Company, Auckland P. D. Greenhough, Auckland Umpire Box - making Company (Limited). Wellington Herbert Gaby, Wellington City Corporation, Aucklan Steam-engine .. Gang-saw Sewing- machine Box-making machine Circular saw .. Stop - valve on main steampipe E. G. Pedler; Iβ years A. Dowsing; 23 years Margaret Wright ; 16 years Louixa ('larke; 17 years Arthur Pearson ; lfi years Fred. Carter; 30 years 28th October, 1907 : crushed forefinger of right hand 31st October, 1907 : thumb crushed 11th November, 1907: half of scalp torn off 13th November, 1907 : first finger of left hand crushed 14th November, 1907 : top of left thumb cut off 22nd November, 1907 : scalded on legs 9th December, 1907 : three fingers cut 11th December, 1907: three fingers of right hand cut off 11th December, 1907: lost right arm Pedler had started the engine slowly, and he was reaching over the crosshead to clean a particular part, when his finger was caught by the crosshead of the engine, and crushed by it. Dowsing released hold of the flitch of wood, when it was immediately jerked back by the saw, and it fell on hix thumb, crushing it. Wright got underneath the machine to pick up something dhe had dropped. Her hair was caught by the main shaft, which runs underneath the machine, while it was in motion, tearing half of her scalp off. j Clarke inadvertently put her finger on the anvil of the machine while it was in motion. While Pearson was sawing a piece of angle-iron, and pressing the iron against the saw, he allowed his thumb to slip under the saw. Carter was employed by the contractors, who had been fitting up the machinery at the destructor power-house, in Auckland, for the City Corporation. He went to turn the steam on at the main stop-valve on the destructor boiler, which is connected to another boiler, recently installed, by a range of 6 in. piping. There was evidently some water in the piping from condensation having taken place, probably from the steam left in the range of piping when used on a previous occasion, or from the stop-valve leaking a little. As soon as Carter commenced to open the steam stop-valve, the steam, coming suddenly into contact with the water in the piping, caused water - hammer action to be set up. The shock due to the vibration set up by this action was the cause of the stopvalve bursting, and injury to Carter. ( raig, after having used the saw, lay down on the sawbench. On getting up again he allowed his fingers to come in contact with the saw. \ While planing a piece of timI ber, Halligan allowed his hand to be drawn into the machine, and his fingers came in contact with the knives of the cutters in motion. Carroll was feeding the machine, when, by some mishap, her hand got under the chain of the machine. It was drawn beneath the cogwheels, lacerating and pulpingHthe flesh, and crushing thejjboneu right up to the elbow. James Craig and Co., Circular saw . . Oamaru David Craig ; 9th December, 1907 : * 18 years three fingers cut Packer and Jones, Christ- Planing-machine church .las. Halligan ; 11th December, 1907 : 24 years three fingers of right hand cut off I W. Rose and Son (Li- Tow-making mamited), Foxton chine Helen A. B. 11th December, 1907 : Carroll; 15 lost right arm years