Insurance Against Accidents

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 80, 8 December 1883, Page 2

Insurance Against Accidents

Some of the mishaps for which the N. Z. Accident Insurance Company have paid claims are singular, and show how liable persons are to be overtaken by physical misfortune, even when their circumstances in life would apparently make them the least likely. We find on examining the list j of claims paid by the company— Mr 8., eyes burned with sulphuric acid, and knee dislocated by a jump from a ■ fence. Mr B. was a runholder, and apparently the last man to suffer from such causes. Another Mrß., an inspector of telegraphs, had his hand. injured by a lathe — a machine entirely a unconnected with his profession. VA third Mrß., a grain merchant, was paid 30s for having his thumb injured' by a cricket ball. AMr G., .auctioneer, injured his hand with a bill-hook and drew 70s. -Another Mr C, * clerk, was struck in the eye by the wing of a fowl, and got £6. It is not said whether the wing was on a living bird, or whether the clumsiness of a bad carver on a cooked fowl caused this accident. Another gentleman was upset in a tricycle and collected 20s (some of our residents have lost money here). A gentleman farmer' was paid 80s as a salve to a hand wounded when alighting from a railway carriage, and another J6lo los for spraining his foot while getting off an . omnibus, while a station hand was paid £3 for spraining his ankle by treading on a loose brick. A farmer was paid 20s for catting his hand while paring peaches, and a man recovered £4 14s 6d for cutting his finger when fishing; A groom waft paid 20s in compensation for getting pricked in the hands while trimming a gorse hedge. A baker annexed £7 for a splinter in his hand, got when shifting firewood. 45s was the value of a sprained" thumb, while an wm wrenched by a fall brought in £i. A draper recovered £4 for a chair felling on his toe., Audi bo pn ad ivfirtitom.