BOY’S NARROW ESCAPE
CAUGHT BETWEEN LIFT AND GATES SAVED JUST IN TIME With his neck caught between the edge of the floor of an ascending lift and the bottom. of the descending guard-gates, an offee boy in a city warehouse came remarkably near to death yesterday afternoon. The boy was on the first floor and had set in motion a goods lift, intending to send it to the ground floor. Instead it began to go up. The boy, who was leaning forward over the floor of the lift, drew back as it rose, but was struck on the back of the neck by the gates, which descend automatically when the lift moves. Luckily the lift was a slow one, and the boy was able to shout to two men on the ground floor, who acted quickly and stopped the lift before it reached the ceiling. As it was he had been lifted off his feet, and in another two seconds would undoubtedly have been killed, at or least very seriously injured. He escaped with nothing worse than a few bruises on his neck.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 13
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