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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 69, 20 November 1915, Page 8

The Waipori power .was “oh” for a few minutes the other day (says the Dime dm through a peculiar accident. Armstrong aud Moore, contractors, are doing some alterations to the building, making it practically fireproof. Une of their carpenters, James Muir, went up the stairs with another man, and, being interested with the sight of the electrical appliances, they looked round for a moment. Pausing in front of the three lighting arresters, Muir pointed at two knobs, aud received serious injury from an electric shock. He must have produced a contact of the two knobs. From one of the knobs there runs a high-tension wire, the wire from the other leading to the earth. The officials say that with an installation carrying as much power as this one does it is possible for the wire to jump towards any object that is a conductor. It is counted unsafe to hold anything of that sort within half an inch of the wire, lest, in its earthward energy, it should leap forward. Exactly wha.t happened in this instance is not known, except that Muir’s arm from the hand to the shoulder was burnt, aud that he is now in the hospital. If the contact had been wholly with the live side, instead of partly on one side and partly on the other, the man would have been struck dead on the spot.

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