BLASTING ACCIDENT
MAN’S HAND SHATTERED ■•‘t'ui . ■ ■' Ve ■ U - •■■ :• * PREMATURE .. . ; >• ■ ■ ' ■ .r:t^t5S*55552SSlI!S55L2S2!£^ As the ro&ijlL of„_ .Vie. 1 .■expJpj- iimlSilL sodium ; ioi- blasting- stumps;" Vm; man named “Dully” • Maxwell, oL Torer<»; received severe injuries to liis left hand. The accident occurred at about 8 o’clock yesterday morning,' at Torero, where Maxwell and a companion, H. Tamati, were engaged on a stumping contract. Maxwell went out to a stamp about 150 yards from the camp site to' ram sodium chlorate into a stump while Tamati prepared breaklast. A few minutes ' later Tamati heard an explosion, and then cries for help 'from Maxwell. Tamati ran over and found the injured man to Be suffering from a badly‘shattered hand, which he bound up to stop bleeding. Maxwell was conveyed to the Opotiki hospital by Tamati in a truck, and his condition is reported to lie not serious.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 44, 15 June 1938, Page 2
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142BLASTING ACCIDENT Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 44, 15 June 1938, Page 2
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