Railway Accidents

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 November 1913, Page 4

Railway Accidents

FATAL AND NON-FATAL DURING 1910-11 AND 1911-12

(Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the sth September, 1912.)

Ordered.—"That there be laid before this House a return for the years ended 31st March 1911 and 1912, showing—(l) The total number of accidents on the Government railways to Government railway employees; (2) the number of accidents that proved fatal; (3) the grade branch and occupation of each of those.injured, fatally and otherwise; (4) the total number of accidents to other than railway employees; (5) the number of those accidents which proved fatal.'-(Mr Witty).

Total number of accidents to railway employees—Year ended 31st March, 1911, 722; year ended •31st March, 1912, 806. Number of accidents to railway employees that proved fatal.— Year ended 31st March, 1911, 10. Year ended 31st March, 1912, 5. The grade and branch of those injured, fatally or otherwise.— Traffic Branch. Ml 12 Stationmasters ... 3 Assistant relieving officer 1 ... Clerk ... 1 Goods Foremen ... 2 Cadets 3 1 Guards 19 14 Storemen 7 3 Shunters 15 24 Signalman ... 1 Porters 70 80 Junior porters 3 13 Labourers 3 7 Dining car waiters 4 2 H'crse drivers 3 3 Crane driver 1 ... Night watch man ... .1 Casual labourers (wharf and shed) 74 90 Maintenance Branch. 11 12 Bridge Inspector — 1 Sleeper Inspector -- 1 Gangers 11 18 i Surfacemen 07 70 I Platelayers 20 15 Plumbers 2 2 Carpenters 14 28 Bridgemen 13 28 Painters 3 1 Signal Adjusters 1 1 Mason 1 — Line Erectors 2 2 Signal Erectors — 7 Fencers 1 $ Fitters 1 2 Strikers 3 1 Miners 2 3 Blacksmiths 3 2 Skilled Labourers 4 4 Labourers — 2 Casual Labourers 93 81 Casual Quarreymen 13 0 Casual Craine-driver 1 — Locomotive Branch. I 11 12 Workshops Manager 1 —- Workshops Foreman 1 — Clerk _ — 1 Mechanical Engineering Cadets 1 1 Enginedrivers 10 lu Firemen 34 2T Cleaners 17 30 Shop Lnginemen 2 2 Machinists 10 13 Turners 10 ■ 10 Fitters 40 40 Painters 3 — Boilermakers 23 9 Carpenters 12 15 Cranedrivors 1 1 Strikers 9 11 Lifters _ 12 11 Crane Examiners 3 1 Blacksmiths 4 11 Holders-up 7 6 Coalmen 7 6 Rivet Boys 3 4 Patternmakers 2 — Furuaceman 1 — Helpers 3 1 Coppersmiths — 2 Pettier — 1 Tinsmith — 1 Gasman — 1 Skilled Labourers 1 2 Labourers 1 b' Casual Labourers 20 41 Ironholders — 8 Casual Watchman 1 — Deckhands (Lake Wakafipu Service) — 2 Total number of accidents to other than railway employees.— Year ended 31st March, 1912, 04; year ended 31st March, 1912, 40. Number of accidents to other than railway employees that proved fatal—Year ended 31st March, 1911, 25: year ended 31st March, 1912, 18.'