TWO FATALITIES
AT HUTT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS MAN CRUSHED BY RAKE 7 OF TRUCKS. ANOTHER FALLS THROUGH ” SKYLIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Two fatal accidents occurred this morning at the Hutt Railway Workshops. Frederick Albert Jones, a single man aged 28, of 135 Richmond Street, Petone, was crushed against a building by a rake of trucks. He was driving an electric scooter at the time. William Noel Cowdry, a single man aged 23, of 35 Awa Road, Miramar, a blacksmith’s striker, climbed to open a skylight and fell through it about 25 feet to the ground, head first on to a pile of iron. Both fatalities occurred at about 8.30 o’clock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1942, Page 4
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