WHO WAS TO BLAME?
ELECTROCUTION FATALITY AT WAIROA. By Telegraph—Pxsss ' Association. Wairoa, May 12. At an inquest on Fred Elmers;'who was electrocuted at the Wairoa Freezing Works, which occupied sixteen hours, a verdict of accidentally killed, as the result of electric shock through eontact with a badly-wired lampholder, was returned. The jury expressed the opinion that tho connection had been made by a novice, whose identity had: not been proved. The jury did not' consider the meat company culpably negligent, but thought the apparatus was not suitable for the purpose it had been put to under the circumstances which prevailed.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3083, 14 May 1917, Page 6
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100WHO WAS TO BLAME? Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3083, 14 May 1917, Page 6
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