ELECTRIC SHOCK
MAN l S CONTACT WITH 1,500 VOLTS SEVERE INJURIES SUSTAINED CHRISTCHURCH, February 15. Suffering from th e combined effects of a severe electric shock and a heavy ’fall from tly». top of an eighteen-foot Udder, Jack Beatty, .a ’ married man, ,of Sullivan Avenue, Opawa, was admitted lo thp Chr’stchut’ch Hospital this morning in a» serious condition. About ten o’clock. Beatty, who Is employed by the, Railway. DepartirGnt was making repairs, to the overhead electric gear on the Lyttelton line running through Woo I ston, when he recei v ?;d a shock of 1500 volts from the wires. He fell to the ground, and suffered head .injuries. ‘Be wa s Heated by Dr Taylor, who arrived on the scone within a Saw minutes and applied artificial respiratory measures which rallied the injured man. Beatty was then removed to the j' \Qhrirjt church Hospital. Ho is report- K. ed to be Heinously, ill from th e effect'-S's/" of ghock and head injuries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 4
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162ELECTRIC SHOCK Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 4
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