WORKER FATALLY INJURED
BURIED UNDER FALLL OF SUPERPHOSPHATE.
ACCIDENT AT WESTFIELD.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 29.
Buried under several tons of superphosphate in the Westfield chemical manure works of Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Ltd., an employee received injuries today from which he died shortly afterward. The victim was John Abraham Burgess, aged about 50, married, of Papakura. Speedy rescue work by several of Mr Burgess’s workmates prevented him from being suffocated, but he was crushed about the chest by the weight of the material.
The mishap occurred about 1.30 p.m. Mi- Burgess, who was employed as a labourer in the superphosphate shed, was operating a rotary loading mechanical plant. Mr Burgess was shovelling loose material close to the face of the stack when several tons rolled down from the top like an avalanche and complete!}' buried him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 9
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