THE DUNEDIN ELECTROCUTION
—4 QAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY. , (By Telegraph.—Press Association,l Dunedin, May 30. The Coroner spent all day to-day in hearing evidence touching the death of James Henderson, linesman in the employ of the Electrical Department of the City Corporation, who was accidentally electrocuted last Wednesday. The verdict was that death was accidental, and was due in a measure to deceased neglecting the ordinary precautions for safety, such as wearing rubber gloves, climbing too high above the line on which he was working, and.using uncoiled tie wire. It appeared from the evidence that the latter canie into . contact with tho low tension wire, and the current at once short-circuited, ind caused a flash which startled Henderson, and threw him forward and down on to a wire carrying an electro-motivo force of 400 volts, and death ensued almost immediately. The Coroner added a rider that all low and high tension electric power wires in tho city should be properly insulated.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 830, 31 May 1910, Page 5
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160THE DUNEDIN ELECTROCUTION Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 830, 31 May 1910, Page 5
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