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

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

Description of Machinery. I 1. 13 CO i Description of Machinery. S (3 CO U i CO > "3 § o Biscuit factories Bacon factories Breweries Brick- and tile-works Brush factory ... Baths Bone-mill Boiling-down ... Blind factory ... Butchers Cabinet-making Carriage factories Chaff-cutting ... Collieries Coffee- and chicory-mills... Cooperage Cordial factories Chemical-works Dock and slip ... Dairy factories... Electric lighting Fire-engines Firewood-sawing Flock-mill Flax-mills Flour-mills 2 3 9 4 1 3 1 8 1 26 7 2 25 2 2 2 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 1 L2 7 Foundries and ironworks Gasworks I Goods-lifts Heating (hospital) Locomotive (contractors) Meat-preserving Pumping ("drainage) „ (waterworks) ... Printing Eoad-roller I Befrigerating-works Stone-breaking... 1 Soap-works Saw-mills Seed-cleaning ... ... Stone-sawing ... Tanneries Threshing-machines Traction-engines Tram-engines ... Wool-washing ... Wool-dumping ... i Woollen-mills ... Winches and cranes Winding Well-sinking ... 25 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 3 13 2 1 4 96 55 6 5 3 3 19 1 3 ... ! ... 3* ... ... 2 "5 1 i l *Gas.

Name and Address of Owner. Description of Machinery. Name and Age of Person injured. Nature of Accident. Fatal or not. Cause of Accident, and Remarks. Canterbury Boiler Mills, Ashburton Flour-mills, Milner Busteam and c h a n a n, water aged 35 years Handcrush'd in cog-wheels Handcrush'd in cog-wheels Arm crushed in scutcher Handcrush'd in rollers Fingers of right hand crushed N< Fat Ni N Not ot ital [ot lot The manager, Mr. D. H. Brown, writes, " It was entirely the man's own fault; while cleaning he allowed a bit of cotton waste to dangle, which caught the cogs and pulled in his hand." The hand was amputated. While scutching fibre his arm was drawn in and badly crushed; it had to be amputated at the shoulder. Blood-poison caused his death. Since this accident there is such an improvement in the scutchers that such an accident is not likely to occur again. While he was adjusting the paper his hand got between the rollers. The hand is quite well again. He was greasing.cog-wheels through a small door left for that purpose when something attracted his attention in another part of the mill, when his fingers were caught. Charles Chinnery, Eangiora Fla x - m i 11, William Versteam and ! rell, aged water 38 years Arm crushed in scutcher Fatal Lyttelton Times Company, Ch'ch Atlas Milling C o mpany, Timaru Printing, William Barsteam low, aged 30 years Flour-mill, James Freesteam man, aged 19 years Not Not