AIR CRANE CRASHES
ACCIDENT AT AWAKINO.
OAAIARU, February 17
Employers in one of the execavations at the Awakino hydro-electrie underfak’ng had a fortunate escape early last Thursday morning, when a jib crane, which towers some hundred odd feet in the air and which is used for removing rock spoil, broke from its moorings and crashed into the pit where the men were working. Luckily few workers were engaged at the time otherwise a tragedy might have resulted. The crane had been lowered and was about to hoist a truck of metal when the screw holding one of the guy ropes summed. The massive column swayed "'ddilv for a few seconds and then, as the other guy ropes gave, broke at the ha'-e and crashed below, lying twisted ° n d Imnt. If possessed a great fascination for visitors to the works. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1930, Page 7
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