WORKMAN KILLED.
CRUSHED UNDER DEBRIS. "HUTT VALLEY TRAGEDY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. One man was killed and another extensively injured to-day when a face of, rock was being prepared for blasting at Haywards Hill, Hutt Valley, Wellington. Ernest William Tucker, a married man with one child, aged 27. who lived at Wainui-o-Mata, was fatally injured. J. Lamb, Mandalay Terrace, Khandallah, received lacerated wouds to his face, arms, hands, legs, and injuries to his back and chest. He was taken to the Wellington Hospital by the Free Ambulance suffering from shock. At a late hour to-night his condition was stated to be satisfactory. The accident occurred at 11.20 a.m., when a section of the rock face being prepared for blasting, fell before the charge exploded. The work the road is being done by the Public Works Department, and is part of a scheme to widen the road from the Hutt Valley to Palmutanui.
Tucker’s body was completely covered by the fragments and more than an hour was spent in moving the debris before it could be extricated.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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178WORKMAN KILLED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 51, 28 January 1938, Page 7
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