SODIUM EXPLOSION
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Worker Burned While Riding Horse SUDDEN BURST 0F FLAME
(By Telusr»,Dh
WHAKATANE, Last Night. A man, Lionel Freeman, 21, married, residiiig at Matata, was severely burned on the hands and face through the oxplosion of 8odium chlorate. He had been employed for some weeks on ragwort eradication on Patterson's estate near Matata. Last evening he was returning on horseback in company with a man named Peterson and was cax'rying a few pounds of sodium wrapped xn a sugar bag on the front of the saddle when the sodium burst into flames. The explosion caused thw horse to bolt and throw the rider into some fern at the roadside clear of the burning bag and contents but not before he had been badly burned. His coat also caught fire but this was smothered by the fall. Peterson rode for assistanee while the injured man walked a mile and a-half to the nearest house. He was taken in a truck to Whakatane Hospital where, it is reported, his condition is satisfactory. /
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 5
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173SODIUM EXPLOSION Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 5
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