SPINAL INJURY
BUSHFELLING ACCIDENT
WORKER’S SERIOUS CONDITION
Serious spinal injuries were sustained by Mr George Thomas Fenton, aged 35 years, a single bushman employed by his uncle, Mr Percy Fenton, a Tarawera sawmiller, last Wednesday, when a heavy limb fell across his back pinning him down until help arrived. Mr Fenton was working on a bush section some distance from the’ mill, and when the accident occurred about noon the greatest care had to be exercised in releasing him from his precarious position. When this was done his mates carried him on an improvised stretcher one and a half miles over very broken country, to the roadway, where he was picked by the ambulance two hoers late’and transferred to the Whakatane Hospital. After an examination he was transferred immediately to Auckland where* his extensive injuries will receive the benefit of expert attention and more advanced equip' ment. His condition yesterday was reported as serious.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 78, 24 May 1946, Page 5
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154SPINAL INJURY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 78, 24 May 1946, Page 5
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