FALLS DOWN SHAFT
WORKER’S ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, September 9. Absent mindedlv pushing a truck on to a lift cage, that was not there, Patrick 'Keenan tumbled with the truck down a seventy foot shaft and was severely injured. Keenan is employed at the sewerage works, part of his duties being to push trucks on a .lift, which lowered them to the bottom of the shaft. When the accident occurred, the lift- was at the bottom of the .shaft.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1931, Page 5
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83FALLS DOWN SHAFT Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1931, Page 5
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