LESSON OF AN ACCIDENT.
COALING LOCOMOTIVES IS SPECIAL . IST WOEK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Hamilton, March 28. An inquest regarding tho death of George France, killed while coaling aa engine at I'rankton Junction on (he morning of Wednesday last, was held to-day. Tho jury returned a verdict that death was accidental through a crane falling on him, the safety clips not being fixed to the rails, and i>dd a rider that the coaling of locomotives should bo dono by special men, as drivers coming in from long runs aro not in a fit condition to make a close examination of cranes; also, that the Department should issue specific rules and regulations for working thesa cranes, the ovidenco having shown that there was some doubt whose duty it wa> to see the clamps fixed to the rails.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1401, 29 March 1912, Page 4
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135LESSON OF AN ACCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1401, 29 March 1912, Page 4
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