FATAL SHOCK
WORKMAN ELECTROCUTED IN AUCKLAND. CONTACT WITH HIGH-VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 25. Through coming in contact with high-voltage electrical equipment inside a steel transformer kiosk in West End Road, Herne Bay this morning, an employee of the Auckland Electric Power Board, was electrocuted. Another man received a slight shock. The victims were: — Killed: Wilfred Nelson Bright, foreman carpenter, married, aged 44, of Ponsonby, an employee of the board since 1922. Injured: James Hedley Porteous, carpenter, married, aged about 40, of Grey Lynn; condition not serious. The kiosk is one of several being erected in the Herne Bay district to accommodate electrical switch gear. It was the duty of Messrs Bright and Porteous as carpenters to erect wooden barriers between the various phases in the switch apparatus, through which 6600 volts were passing at the time of the fatality. ' Mr Bright accidentally came in contact with the live equipment and was killed outright. He was thrown back against Mr Porteous, who was working nearby and who also received a shock. When he had recovered sufficiently, Mr Porteous, who was the only witness of the accident, telephoned for help.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1938, Page 4
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191FATAL SHOCK Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1938, Page 4
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