Two fitter's labourers employed at the Devonshire Works, Staveiey, who lost their lives by electrocution, were the subjects of an inquest at Chesterfield Hospital. The men were painting electrical standards. A witness said he saw the two men surrounded by smoke at the top of a high tension column. He had tho current switched oft', but; the men died later in hospital. There was a danger notice on one of tho high-tension standards. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and recommended that danger notices bo affixed at once to each standard, and that tho painting be doiw only, or Buadjjjs, $km tins flitngit yns -*St .....•■ " -•-..--■ _■•■•.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7
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107Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7
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