The Archive · 1937

Struck by Planks

In a timber work', some planks on fa flat truck had been taken from gang saw on a mezzanine floor down rally on a ramp by means of a cable hoist. A worker was detaching the cable and hitching on, another to take the truck up the ramp to another saw, when the planks fell off the truck-on to his back. He wa killed. Planks are usually laid on trucks with short lengths laid across at right angles for bonding. This ported. was not done inthe instance re-

One fatal case of electric shuck end one with non-fatal' results occur~ ed in a cloth dyeing factory. Three workers were pushing a trick on mezzanine floor when it, struck some S-phase power wiring run vertically in wood easing on a wooden pillar. The capping was broken and the steel frame of the truck cut through Tue Chief Officer of the Settlement Fire Brigade reports that fifty-six calls were received during June, one of which was a malicious false alarm. The damage done inside the Seltlement limits totalled $49,790 and the Special Rated Area $240. The values of properties at risk in the {oo areas were $10,417,010 and $65 respectively. The Emergency Ambulance Service recalled 631 calls fend in connection therewith 632 patients were conveyed to various hospitals,

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