ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED. While engaged in repairing power lines in Hastings this morning, Allred Gordon Head, married, aged about 3<, was electrocuted aud subsequently died at the Memorial Hospital, reports an Association message. Read was on tap of a power pole and apparently touched a 230-volt wire. He was seen by a ganger to fall across a cross-arm attached to the pole, and there he hung until lowered to the ground by topee^• Artificial respiration was immediately resorted to, and at the hospital he placed in an iron lung, but after an hour it was apparent that death had intervened. FRACTURED COLLARBONE. George Dougal, a young married man, residing at 03 Shetland street, Hoslyn, suffered a fractured collarbone when he fell on his way to work. He was admitted to hospital at 11.30 this morning.
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Evening Star, Issue 23690, 25 September 1940, Page 8
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137ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 23690, 25 September 1940, Page 8
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