CAUGHT IN MACHINERY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1603, 21 November 1912, Page 4

CAUGHT IN MACHINERY.

AN ENGINE-ROOM. FATALITT. Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., held an' inquest yesterday concerning the death of Arthur Puduey, who died in the Public Hospital' on Sunday last. . .-' The deceased, who was employed in the Victoria Street works of Thomas Bellinger and Co,r Ltd., plumbers,-on October 31 last, met with an accident there. In the : course'of evidence, Samuel Harding, a turner, said that Puduey. was employed as a plumber's machinist, and, also; was in charge, of the,engine-room. Just before tho'mishap, deceased, Cecil Home, and witness- had been taking down the machinery. After a pulley was removed, Pudney set the machinery in motion again, and went to the place 'where the pulley was to look for some nuts and a bolt. Ho put his hand on the plumber-block, through . which the shafting ran, arid then got caught in tho shafting, which was moving at the fate of 130"to IGO revolutions per minute. Witness, saw Pudney revolving with the shafting, and, as won as possible, stopped the engine. Pudney was seriously injured; ami his clothts were wound round the shafting. Dr. Faulke, who was called in after the accident,,deposed that Pudney's right foot had.been severely injured; therei was compound fracture of the left foot, and tho small bone of the right leg had been fractured, the left side was bruifed; and tho bead was injured. At the hospital some davs later the right leg was. amputated, but deceased, who .had never done woli; died .on Sunday last'from exhaustion.' -. ~ , .' , Thomas Ballinger, managing director of Thomas Ballinger and Co., Ltd:, said that deceased had been in tho employ rif.tho firm since 1893. The protections had been taken down beforo a part of the machinery had been removed, and had not been replaced before the machinery was again set in motion. „,,»,, „ Tlie verdict was to the effect that death had boon caused by exhaustion, following upon the accident above referred to'.'