A FIFTY-FOOT FALL.
Christchurch, Yesterday
A terrible accident occurred at the United Service Hotel this afternoon, by which a young married man named Frederick Semb, employed as au engineer and electrician at the hotel, sustained grave injuries. In the servants’ portion of the hotel there is an electrical lift for the conveyance of goods from the basement to the kitchen which is situated on the fourth storey. Semb was on the uppermost flat talking to his wife. Requiring to use the lift, which was then in the basement, he opened the collapsible door and put his arm round to pull the wire to bring the lift up. His foot slipped on the edge of the open lift well, and he was hurled down the shaft, a distance of fully fifty feet, falling on to the heavy timber and iron framing on the lift. By the time assistance was at hand, Semb, who was bleeding, was just falling from the framing on to the floor of the lift.
He was sent to the hospital in the ambulance.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 806, 1 February 1910, Page 3
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176A FIFTY-FOOT FALL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 806, 1 February 1910, Page 3
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