FINGER BLOWN OFF
DETONATOR EXPLODES ACCIDENT TO WAIHI MINER (From Our Oxen Correspondent) WAIHI, To-day. Through the premature explosion of a detonator last evening, Mr. Frank Thornton, of Pipe Lane, Waihi, had the misfortune to lost the third finger %f his right hand. Mr. Thornton, who is a miner employed by the Waihi Gold Mining Company. was attaching the detonator to a length of fuse when the explosion occured. Besides losing one finger Mr. Thornton had two other fingers on the same hand badly shattered.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 379, 13 June 1928, Page 1
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85FINGER BLOWN OFF Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 379, 13 June 1928, Page 1
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