LABOURER'S DEATH
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"Someone Blundered," Says Coroner WESTFIELD FATAUTy
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AUCKLAND, This Day. "Someone blundered," said the coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, to-day at the iuquest into the death of Herbert Green, labourer, aged 55, who was killed at th© Westfield works of Kempthorne Prosser's when a wooden platform collapsed while he was assisting in its demolition and he was thrown to the concrete fioor, The engineer at the works sajd he was not aware that h© should have notified the scaffolding inspector that he was about to undertake work and that pulleys and winch were being used to demolish the platform. The coroner said that a mistake had been made in removing th$ supports to the platform without adequate ineasures being taken to safeguard the men employed. It was like a man sitting on a branch and sawing off the wrong = end. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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