LIVE WIRE HANDLED
PAINFUL BURNS RECEIVED. . , :r .1 >• ft WORKERS’ NARROW ESCAPE. NEW PLYMOUTH. September 17. Two men had a narrow-escape from electrocution at New Plymouth recently. Both received painful burns', ~ Messrs F. Goodwin and J. Biesiek. employed on the Taranaki Electric Power Board’s water-race-Lin the Maungatea svariip at rßhtapifey*' proceeded to remove’ ‘'a'wdre. l dvliielv proved to be alive with a strong , current. Neither man was able to let go, but fortunately their cries for held wen?, heard- by a neighbour, Mr Scurr, who rushed to the scene and' severed the wire with an axe.
Mr Goodwin collapsed -back into the race,, through which , the whole oft.be Maunganui River was running. A ter some, tense moments Mr. Scurr succeeded in reseuring him in a drowninc condition and suffering frpnj; -painful hums.' Mr Biesiek was also ||ffei’ing from burns. !; :1 ' f‘ A doctor was summoned, afid. after the men had received attention they were removed to then-.homes, p r
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1932, Page 3
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