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Return of Non-fatal Accidents in connection with Machinery during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1918.

Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name and Age of Person injured. Date of Accident. Nature of Injury. Cause of Accident, and Remarks. Andersons Limited, Christchureh Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hardware Company (Limited), Wellington Beattie, Coster, and Co. (Limited), Mataura A. and T. Burt (Limited), Dunedin Lathe Planing .. Pump Lathe Tin-making ! I .. I G. Reed ; 24 years WiUiam Stewart : 44 years .. | John Bolger ; 32 years .. [ Chris Boddy-: 16 years Mabel Church ; 19 years 19/4/17 Finger injured .. Reed got his finger between the work he was turning and the tool. 20/4/17 Hand injured .. When planing a piece of timber Stewart aUowed his left hand to come into contact with the knives of the machine. 23/4/17 Arm injured .-. While oihng the machinery Bolger's arm was caught by it and vras broken. 27/4/17 Finger injured .. Boddy w-as boring out a coUar in a lathe ; he inadvertently sot the third finger of his right hand jammed. 12/5/17 Fingers injured .. Two of her fingers were caught by moving machine and were cut. Irvine and Stevenson (St. George Company (Limited)), Dunedin A. and T. Burt (Limited), Dunedin Golden Bay- Cement-works (Limited), Tarakohe Haydoek and Spragg, Auckland. Sprue-cutting Conveyor-gear Poyver hack-saw Circular saw Wrapping Milling .. .. • WiUiam Buchanan ; 35 years .. : John Grooby-; 54 years .. W. T. Stewart,: 19 years James Shepherd : 51 years Annie Sampson ; 16 years ..IN. Blakeyvay ; 16 years 12/5/17 Finger injured .. Buchanan got the middle finger of his right hand jammed in the machine. 20/5/17 Arm injured .. Grooby was oihng the machinery when his coat-sleeve was caught in the cog-wheels ; his arm was drawn in and was bruised and lacerated. 21/5/17 Finger injured .. The frame of the saw slipped whilst he was settling metal in the machine : it cut the end off the forefinger of his right hand. 21/5/17 Finger injured .. Shepherd's first finger of his right hand came into contact with the saw and was cut. 24/5/17 Finger injured .. In taking off a smaU knife from the machine Sampson accidentally started it, yvhen the forefinger of her right hand yy-as injured. 29/5/17 Arm injured .. Through inattention Blakeway got his left arm cut by the machine. James Speight and Co. (Limited), Dunedin Aulsebrook and Co., Christchureh Canterbury Engineering Company, Christchureh Bassett and Co. (Limited), Wanganui .. Aulsebrook and Co., Christchureh Cossens and Black (Limited), Dunedin.. Brownlee Limited, Kilbirnie David Scott, Stirling Buzzer Fat-press.. Drilling .. Planing .. Oil-engine Icing Lathe Elevator Lathe H. Munro ; 15 years C. Haultain : 54 years J. R. Simmons ; 27 years William Donaldson ; 28 years David Scott ; 57 years A. W. Knight ; 54 years Ro3 T Congalton ; 15 years J. H. W. Phelan ; 27 years . . W. M. McLaren ; 16 years 1/6/17 Finger injured- .. Munro's first finger of his right hand came into contact with a cutter of the machine. 2/6/17 Finger injured .. Haultain was cleaning out the press while the rollers were in motion, when the second finger of his left hand was crushed by them. 9/6/17 Arm injured .. When yvorking at the machine the sleeve of Simmons's overaU was caught on the head of the set-screws in socket: his left arm was twisted round the spindle and yvas fractured. 12/6/17 Leg injured .. Donaldson yvas planing a piece of timber when it was thrown back by the saw; it struck him and caused the fracture of his left leg. 14, 6/17 Ribs and foot injured While engaged oihng the bearing Scott's foot was caught by the shaft: he yvas thrown down, when a rib was broken and his foot bruised. 25/6/17 Fingers injured .. Whilst the machine was in motion Knight's first and second fingers of right hand were caught between the feed-plates and were badly squeezed. 25/6/17 Thumb injured .. Through inattention Congalton got his right thumb crushed in the gearing-yvheel of the lathe. 26/6/17 Thumb lost .. Whilst the elevator was in motion Phelan threw- a rope over it; the rope was caught by a cog-wheel, and in endeavouring to pull it off he lost his right thumb. 26/6/17 Body injured .. McLaren's clothing yvas caught in the carrier of the lathe ; he was drawn in against the face-plate and had his face bruised and his shoulder-blade injured. Aulsebrook and Co., Christchureh A. and T. Burt (Limited), Dunedin N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), Dunedin WelUngton Technical Education Board, WeUington