TRAGIC DEATH
AMMONIA PLANTS BURSTS
ONE KILLED, THREE INJURED
(By Telegraph—Per .Press Association)
OAMARU, December 14
When an ammonia liquid receiver burst at the Waitaki Farmers’ Freezing Company's Pukeuri Works this afternoon, John Norton, aged 70, a married man, lost his life and three others were injured,, one of whom, (Ross Clark, lies in the Oamaru Hospital in a. serious condition. The men were working in' ,the _ engineers’ fitting room when the accident happened, all making their escape except Norton, who was subsequently dragged from the mom by Tn vwmuer who wore a gas helmet. Life, howevoj, was then extinct. An inquest "'as opened and adjourned after evidence of identification had been given.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 5
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