THROWN FROM PLATFORM.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 16

THROWN FROM PLATFORM.

CARPENTER'S DEATH. (press association telegbam.) WELLINGTON, October 28. An inquest was held to-day regarding the death of Joseph Kelleher, thirty-eight, a married man with a wife and two children, who was killed during dismantling operations on a chimney at the gasworks at Miramar on Wednesday. Part of the top of the chimney had been removed with the aid of a screw jack, and Kelleher and another man were endeavouring to cut away the remaining portion. They were kneeling on the scaffold inside the chimney when a piece of concrete, weighing about half a tori, commenced to fall towards the iron bars. Failing to break as expected, the block crashed over the side and back on to the chimney, causing it to sway violently. Just" as the swing took place Kelleher rose to his feet with the evident intention of jumping to a lower platform for safety, but lie was too late, and the impact caused him to lose his balance. He was Thrown over the side and fell to the prouiul, being killed instantly. A verdict was returned that Kelleher died from injuries received through accidentally falling from the chimney.