ELECTRIC LINESMAN’S DEATH.
FELLOW - WORKER’S PLUCKY ' . ACT. Per Press Association. Christchurch, Aug. 7. At the inquest on Patrick Kerr, electric linesman, of the Public Works Department, who was electrocuted at Tai Tapu, evidence showed that he was working with a dead-’ line some five feet under the live cables carrying 11,000 volts. He stood up, bringing his head into connection with the live wire. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The Coroner added a rider “That the Public Works Department should consider' the possibility of making some contrivance which . would minimise the danger for men who were working near live wires..” Mr L. Birks, Government Electrical Engineer, expressed the Department’s appreciation of the plucky act of Robert Jeal, a fellowlinesman, in palling Kerr, away from the live wire. Jeal ran a considerable risk, and if the shock had not been a severe one he would probably have saved Kerr’s life.'
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 2
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151ELECTRIC LINESMAN’S DEATH. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 2
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