Hay maker killed
All three Waiouru policeman attended a fatal accident on farmland at the top of Dump Hill on Thursday at 6.45am. Roy Malcolm Walker of Wanganui was part of a hay making team when the hay rake he was helping to unload off a trailer slipped off the lifting hoist and crushed him. Waiouru policeman Constable Mike Martin said that one of the strops holding the 500 kilogram hay rake slipped off the hook of the crane-like attachment dropping the hay rake on to Mr Walker, killing him instantly. Constable Martin said that the incident has been reported to the coroner and an inquest will be held in due course. Also Occupational Safety and Health (a branch of the former Labour Department) will be carrying out their own investigation as it was an industrial-farm type of accident.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 574, 21 February 1995, Page 5
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139Hay maker killed Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 574, 21 February 1995, Page 5
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