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Return of Machinery inspected in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890.

Return of Accidents to Life and Limb which have occurred in connection with Land Boilers and Machinery in the Auckland District during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1890.

Description of Machinery. Ammunition factory Air-compressor ... Boiling-down Bakeries ... Boat-building ... Breweries Brick-works Block- and pump-works ... Bone-mills Boot factory Butter-box factory Coach factory ... Clothing factory... Confectionery factories ... Cabinet-making factories ... Cement-works ... Chemical-works Cordial-works ... Chaff-cutting Coffee-mills Dairy factories and creameries ... Dredging Docks ... Diamond-drills ... Flour-mills Flock-mill Fellmongeries ... Freezing-works . . Fruit-preserving works ... Fish-preserving works Firewood-cutting Fire-engine Gasworks 1 j i cn t> 1 1 4 2 1 7 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 ... 1 2 2 7 '.'.'. '.'.'. 1 4 21 3 i i I \ cerine-works Hoisting Hauling Ironworks and foundries Laundries Lifts or elevators Lead-works Mortar-mills ... Malt-mill Maize-mill .Meat-canning factories ... Oil-springs Oil-, soap-, & caudle-works Pumping and winding ... Printing Potteries Pile-driving Phormium-dressing Quartz-crushing Boad-roller Bope- works Saw-mills Sash and door factory ... Sugar-works ... Stone-breaking Ship-building yards Sausage-machines Tanneries Tinplate-works Threshing-machines Wool-dumping Waterworks Woollen-mill ... Winding Description of Machinery. 2 d dj 44 m 1 25 '.) 16 2 2 1 6 .1 1 2 1 2 10 2 2 2 51+ 3 1 1 46 1 1 2 2 2 (i 1 11 2 ._> 1 10 z 44 a Es 44 ci Es 7 i 18 3 ... 16 1 2 1 6 1 3 2 2 6 12* 2 1 3 ine, water and steam. i »< t Three, water and steam.

Name and Address of Owner. Description Machinery. Name of Person injured. Nature and Date of Accident. Fatal or uot. Cause of Accident, and Remarks, Gibbs Brothers, Churchill William H.W'allis, Okete, Haglan Wilson and Co., Mahurangi Flax-mill .. F. Nickisson, K i g li t a r in aged 17 years wrenched off, llth July. 188'J Flax-mill .. Maka Hanuio- Right arm crush'd ani (Maori), aged 18 years Lime-works .. | li. \V. Warin, Right arm scaged about 21 verely crushed, years llth November, 188'J Not It appears he was in tlic act of throwing a hank of Ilax towards the scutcher, when, one end of the hank becoming entangled with a revolving spindle, his arm was drawn towards it and wrenched off. A more experienced person would have let go the Max in place of holding on. Fatal He was employed at the scutcher ; his right arm gnl entangled with the flax, being drawn with it into the feeding - apparatus and severely crushed : it was afterwards amputated. He died the following day from the effects of the injuries received. Not He was reaching over to oil the top parts of a pulverising-machine while in motion ; his shirt sleeve appears to have been loose, us ii was caught by a pair of wheels : his arm was drawn in and severely crushed. Tho manager's instructions were to stop the machine for oiling, &c. This and the preceding case are due to the clothing worn being too loose. If many of those employed about machinery would bo more particular in this respect there would he fewer accidents to report.