SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 3

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

IN THE MANGAROA BUSH. A man named Joseph Benge, employed at Messrs. Seed Bros.'s sawmill at Mangaroa (above Upper Hutt) was brought to the Wellington Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a very severe scalp wound, sustained in the course of loghauling operations at 9.30 a.m. yesterday. The unfortunate man was standing near one. of the guiding snatch-blocks,' through which passes the three-inch wire rope used in hauling the logs, from the bush to the mill, when, through nn accident, the pin which fastens the gate of the block fell out, and tho wire, jumping the pulley under high tension, released itself from the block, and struck Benge on the back of the- head, opening the scalp from one side of the head to the other. The man was picked up unconscious, and conveyed with all possible dispatch by bush-trucks to the Mangaroa Station, where a goods train picked him up, and conveyed him to the Upper Hutt Station, where the morning passenger train to Wellington had been delayed pending his arrival. There Dr. Kemp, of the Hutt, attended to the man's wound temporarily, and ordered him to tho Wei-, lington Hospital, whiteher he was conveyed by the' St. John Ambulance .vagen. Benge, who is a married man with a family, is aGbut 32 years of age. Mr. Seed, who accompanied the man to town, expresses surprise that Benge was not killed outright, as the tension on the wire'rope is very great.