FALL OF METAL
Worker in Quarry Suffers Minor Injuries BURIED TO THE NECK Twice impi-isoned by falls of metal, a quarryman at Poraite shingle pit yesterday morning suffered .a nervewracking experience, -but was tuclcy to escape with minor injuries. The worker, Mr. Len Diekensen, did not escape fast enough at the warning of a serious fall of metal and was buried to the hips in loose shingle. While workmates were engaged in extrieating him, a further fall covered him in shingle to the neck. When the lirst slip foll, a doctor was hastily summoned from Napier while the workers cndeavoured to dig out their fellow, and,] although the faet that the second fall following the first so quickly caused shoek, Mr. Diekensen eseaped with minor leg iujuries. He is at present in the Napier Public' Hospital. -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 4
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