ACCIDENT AT PUKE.
FALL OF STEELWORK.
MISHAP ON SNAGGING BARGE. .An employee of the Public Works Department named J. Curtis, son of Mr A. W. Curtis, old Te Aroha Road, was injured at the Puke on Monday afternoon. It appears that Curtis, who had only been employed by tlie department that morning, was assisting to assemble tlie lifting gear on a snagging barge near the Public Works depot at the Puke, when a piece of steelwork slipped. Before Curtis could escaoe his left leg became jambed between the piece of steel and some other gear, with the result that the leg was bruised and crushed. Curtis was conveyed to the Paeroa office of the department, where Dr. Smith attended to him, and he was afterwards driven to his home. It is considered that Curtis had a lucky escape fr°m a serious accident. As it was, the flesh of the limb was scarcely laceratied, and no bones were fractured.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5207, 23 November 1927, Page 2
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158ACCIDENT AT PUKE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5207, 23 November 1927, Page 2
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