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Name and Address of Occ-ner. Description of Mactiinery. Xame and Age of Person injured. Date of Accident, and -Nature of Injury. Cause of Accident, and Kemarks. Phoenix Company (Limited), Dunedin .. Wire stitching .. Miss G. Anderson ; 17 years .. 24th August, 1915 ; finger injured ' When feeding machine Miss Anderson allowed her fingers to get into machine, causing injury to one of them. Miss Marks accidentally put her hand too far into the machine, when her fingers were caught in the eccentric, causing injury to them. Miss Heald permitted her right hand to get between rollers while feeding machine, when the third and fourth fingers were crushed. When cutting tin Smith allowed his hand to come into contact with the knife of the machine. Nelson allowed his right hand to slip into the back of the knives. when his arm was drawn in. The arm was lacerated, and it had to be amputated above the elbow. When putting wire into machine Howard's right hand got caught by the wheels and the fingers were crushed. The loose driving-belt had become wound round the shaft, and inorder to put it on the stone Cartner caught hold of the revolving end of it, when he was drawn over the shaft. His arm w-as badly injured, and it had to be taken off. Buchan wastighteningupthe socket-rod when his left hand slipped and was caught in the cog-wheels, causing the injury to the second finger. While engaged testing knives for height on the machine Chisholm's fingers were drawn on to the knives, when he lost three of them. Jerome was adjusting belt on the shaft when his clothes got entangled in the shifting and he was drawn round. His head and his chest were bruised. Through inattention Miss Jeffrey got the index finger of right hand between the spokes of a revolving wheel. It was crushed and had to be amputated. Tyrell accidentally got third and fourth fingers of left hand caught in the cogs, crushing them. Miss Tolmie was cleaning loom while in motion when the wrist of her right hand was caught between the wheel and the frame, causing laceration of the flesh. Parker allowed his right forefinger to come under the die, whe c it was crushed. ' Morris's left hand came into contact with the knives. Oamaru Woollen Factory Company (Limited), Oamaru Pirn winding .. Miss M. L. Marks ; 14 years .. 1st September, 1915 ; fingers injured New Zealand Paper Mills (Limited), Auckland T. J. Edmonds (Limited), Linwood Papsr-bag making.. Amy Heald ; 15 years 6th September, 1915 ; fingers injured 7th September, 1915 ; hand injured Tin-body forming F. G. Smith ; 24 years Love Bros., Port Chalmers Planing .. .. Lindo Nelson ; 14 years 10th September, 1915 ; arm injured Alexander Binnie and Co., Dunedin .. Wire-crimper .. Victor Howard ; 17 years 20th September, 1915 ; fingers injured 29th September, 1915 ; arm lost .. Blackwater Mines (Limited), Blackwater Grindstone .. John Cartner; 30 years Stevenson and Cook Engineering Company (Limited), Port Chalmers Drilling .. .. Alexander Buchan ; 18 years.. 18th October; finger lost Love Bros., Port Chalmers Vertical spindle .. A. R. Chisholm ; 30 years 3rd November, 1915 ; fingers lost Steel Construction Company (Limited), Auckland Radial-drill shafting D. R. Jerome ; 30 years 8th November, 1915 ; head and chest injured Ross and Glendining (Limited), Dunedin Winding .. .. Sarah Jeffrey ; 15 years 10th November, 1915; finger injured William Wright and Co. (Limited), Dunedin South Canterbury Woollen Manufacturing Company, Timaru Dough .. .. Walter Tyrell; 52 years 11th November, 1915; fingers injured 13th November. 1915; wrist injured Power-loom .. Helen Tolmie ; 15 years Phoenix Company (Limited), Dunedin. . Tinshop press .. ' Cecil Parker ; 14 years 16th November, 1915 ; finger injured 23rd November, 1915; hand injured 26th November, 1915; thumb injured 30th November, 1915; finger injured 1st December, 1915 : hand injured T. Morris, Waikumete I Planing .. .. John Morris ; 34 years Andersons Limited, Christchurch Screwing . L. Findlay ; 16 years Findlay's thumb was caught between spanner and rest, and was crushed. Miss Jacobsen's fourth finger of right hand was accidentally caught between rollers on ruling-machine and was crushed. Shearer's left hand came into contact with the knives, causing injury to two of the fingers and portion of hand. Miss Carrington accidentally started the machine while the second finger of her left hand was under the stitcher. When feeding machine Warnock's arm was drawn into the scutcher. The hand and forearm were so seriously injured that the arm had to be amputated a little below the elbow*. Hodgson's right thumb touched the saw and was cut. New Zealand Paper Mills (Limited), Auckland Upton and Shearer, Wellington Paper-making Hilda Jacobsen ; 16 years Buzzer .. .. Walter Shearer; 51 years Evening Star Compan}* (Limited), Dunedin Stanton and Grimwood, Otapiri Gorge Wire stitching .. Emma Carrington ; 24 years .. 13th December, 1915 ; finger injured 22nd December, 1915 ; arm injured Flaxmill .. .. William Warnock ; 24 years .. Leyland O'Biien Timber Company (Limited), Auckland 6th January, 1916 ; thumb injured Rip-saw .. .. Joe Hodgson; 17 years