FOOT CRUSHED
MR F. GOODSON INJURED ' BY FALL OF HEAVY i PIPE A painful accident with a fortunate escape from very serious injury ocrcurred in the Rotorua railway yards at about 4.45 o'clock yesterday afterji noon when Mr F. Goodson, who was unloading a number of heavy . draim age pipes out of a truck had his foot ' severely crushed by a pipe vwhich' slipped out of the slings in which it was being raised. . Mr Goodson was immediately reH moved to King Street Hospital wherd. an operation was performed last night. n Each of the pipes weighed several, hundredweight and had Mr Goodson; been struck on the head by the con;-|' crete cylinder, the result might welj have been fatal. , ,J
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 October 1931, Page 3
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