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Return of Accidents to Life and Limb which have occurred in connection with Land Boilers and Machinery during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1884.

Return of Machinery Inspected during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1884.

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Name and AddresB of Owners. Description of Machinery. Name of Person injured. Nature of Accident. Fatal or not. Causo of Accident and liemarks. Wilding and Bull, Saw - mills, Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay oseplx Wagstaff and Son, Flax-dressers, Opunake, Taranaki Bush saw-mill Flax-mill John Smith .. A Native youth, called Frank Tho body cut by a circular saw The arm severely bruised Fatal.. Not .. Carelessness on part of the ■deceased in working on the travelling-bench in front of the saws while in motion. No one in the mill saw the accident occur, but the body was almost cut in half, from the left shoulder to the right hip. Want of experience in the work. An experienced hand would not have attempted to hold on to the hank until his hand was drawn into the scutcher. The arm was drawn into the machine up to the shoulder, and so badly hurt that amputation was necessary.

Wellington. Marlboro' igh. Nelson North. Ti irana; ± Hawki >'p Bay. DeBcription. 13 a 02 3 a gl a s I a 3 o 09 Ki a i -4-' I Phormium-dressing Printing Flour-mills Saw-mills Sash and door factory Foundries Quartz-crushing Threshing-machines Soap and candle works Cordial factories Boiling-down establishments Sheep-dips.. Brick-making machines Biscuit factory Chaff-cutting machines Breweries Drain-pipe works Hoisting machinery Hauling machinery Dredging machinery Pumping machinery Winding machinery Coffee and spico mills Tanneries Electric-light machines Turneries Wool-dumping Ice machine Sausage machines Tobacco-cutting Traction engines Gasworks Mortar-mills Machine shops Meat-preserving works Locomotives Rice-mill Stone-breaking Freezing machines Hydraulic lifts Wool-scouring machines Bone-crushing Totals.. 4 2 10 33 10 6 "i "i '5 2 9 1 2 3 2 4 25 2 2 1 7 1 1 1 4 2 1 8 3 1 '3 1 1 2 10 3 1 "2 1 1 1 12 1 24 1 2 12 1 *5 18 1 2 G 2 1 5 6 1 6 0 4 10 1 1 1 1 1 'i 1 1 3 4 1 1 "l 3 1 1 6 1 1 '2 1 1 1 "2 3 2 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 2 2 1 4 1 4 "2 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 14 2 3 1 "l "l 1 1 4 5 1 5 64 8 42 4 2 59 3 191 40