ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
LINESMAN’S DEATH TOUCHED HIGH-TENSION WIRE (Per United Press Association) HASTINGS. Sept. 25. While engaged in repairing power lines in Hastings this morning Alfred Gordon Read, married, aged about 37, was electrocuted. He w.as on top of a power pol? and apparently touched a 230-volt wire He was seen by a ganger to fall over a cross-arm attached to the pole, and he hung there until lowered to the ground, by rones. Artificial respiration was immediately resorted to. and at the Memorial Hdsnital he was placed in an iron lung, but after about an hour it was apparent that death had intervened. ELDERLY WOMAN INJURED Marion Bowie, an elderly woman hvine at Gladstone road. Mosciel, slipped and fell at her home yesterday and was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 7.40 p.m suffering from a Potts fracture of the left ankle. INJURY TO ELBOW When she fell at her home in Salisbury street, Kaikorai. yesterday, Alison Punton. a small girl, received an injury to her left elbow. She was admitted to Hospital at' 9.30 p.m. FRACTURED COLLARBONE George Dougal, a young married man living at 63 Shetland street, fell while on his way to work yesterday and received a fractured collarbone. He was admitted to Hospital at 11.30 a.ra
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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211ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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