CAUGHT IN MINCER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 1

CAUGHT IN MINCER

BOY LOSES FINGERS IN MACHINE COMPENSATION AWARDED A boy, who lost the four fingers and thumb of his right hand through getting them caught iu a sausage mincing machine on the first day of his employment, was awarded a total of £612 compensation in the Arbitration Court today. The claim was brought by Alfred oeo. Mason, father of the injured boy, Maurice Austin Mason (Mr. Burt) against Henry T. Read (Mr. Sellar), butcher, of Mount Eden Road. According to the cla’im the accident “JjruiTed on Monday, February 3, IJ3O, when the boy was engaged in mincing meat for sausage making. He overbalanced and his right hand becam® entangled with the result that *ll the fingers and thumb of the hand ’! er ® amputated. It was claimed that i b °y had been disabled from earnn? wages up to the present and that e aad suffered partial permanent disablement. The injured boy gave evidence that <s employer had directed him in the 3® of the machine, warning him to se the plunger iu pushing meat own into the bowl of the mincer. ? agreed that Read had warned him in ij dan S® r of putting his hand ■aside the bowl. After giving witss instructions concerning the ? cln ß. Read told him to carry on, >•» a- ' er ’ wb " e the mincing was promo '? s ' he went upstairs. A few minlater witness, in leaning over to ne J some stray pieces of meat, aced his right hand on the edge of e mincer, but his hand slipped into me machine. v defendant, in evidence, said he hana*! 8 * 11611 the b °y uot to use his bnn.i ln puslliu S the meat into the artmlJ tbe mincing machine. He muted he expected the boy would receive compensation. F n Siting judgment, Mr. Justice be 'd that there was nothing that the boy had been doing I Tthing that he should not have ‘t appeared to be an unfortunate accident. v J!*® compensation was ordered to Paid to the Public Trustee.