CRUSHED BY STEEL
WORKSHOP FATALITY That death was accidental was the verdict returned yesterday at the inquest on Edward Reid, aged 40, who was killed instantly at the Newmarket railway workshops on May 11, when a steel frame weighing- two tons crushed him. Thomas U. Jones, a crane-driver, said he was hoisting iron frames in slings tested to lift five tons. The load was about six feet from the floor when it crashed on Reid. Witness said the tackle was quite safe, but the sling at one end had slipped off the crane hook. The coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., held that the fatality was accidental. ’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 16
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