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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Miner Dies in Hospital Was Injured At North Mine; Fall Of Ground Inquest Opened

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 3

AN inquest into the death of Mitar Jovanovich (26), of 17 Iodide Street, was opened and adjourned by the Coroner (Mr. A. B. Collins) today. Jovanovich was buried by a fall of earth oh the 1400ft. level at the North…

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Street Accident

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 7

Slight injuries were sustained by Enid.Staker (18), of 129 Rakow Street, when she was knocked down by a motor car in Argent Street…

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Men Injured

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 3

K. Andrews was struck behind the ear by the handle ot a chute while at work today. Injuries lie received necessitated.Hospital treatment,…

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Injured At Work

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 4

Walter Roach, 103 Ryan Street, a miner at the Zinc Corporation, suffered injuries to the head when a stone fell on it yesterday. He was…

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Injured at North Mine in July 1936 Claim For Compensation Heard By Judge Lamond

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 June 1939 · page 4

BEFORE Judge Lamond in the Workers' Compensation Commission, which commenced its sittings at the Courthouse yesterday Rocco Roccisano claimed compensation for alleged incapacitation from the North. Broken…

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Farm Laborer Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 June 1939 · page 3

KADINA, Thursday.- When the wheel of a combine ran over his head at the farm of Mr. J. C. Price, of Parkeville, yesterday, Stanley…

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Prevention Of Road Accidents Select Committee's Recommendations

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 June 1939 · page 6

A SELECT Committee of the house of Lords recently took evidence on the subject of thc prevention of road accidents in England. A long list of recommendations has now been made, and, as the traliic problem is similur in all parts of the world,…

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Road Safety. Winter Dangers Road Accident Causes

Western Grazier · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 2

Serious road accidents, many of them fatal, have been reported from almost all parts of the State in the last few weeks and the principal cause has been…

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Norths' Head Trainer Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 2

Bill Christophers. Norths' head trainer, is receiving treatment at the Hospital for a toe injury sustained at work on Friday…

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Hebbard Injured at Work

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 2

Less than 48 hours after it was announced that be had been, selected in the 20 named to train with a view to selection in the, Broken Hill team to…

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Two Planes Destroyed; Four injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.- Two Gipsy Moth planes, each valued at £600, were totally destroyed and two women pilots and a boy and girl…

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Level Crossing Fatality

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Lawrence John Dempsey (24), married, of Upper Ferntree Gully, was killed and Patrick Fitzgerald (35), single, of the…

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Two Injured In Port Kembla Explosion SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 3

A terrific explosion occurred at the Port Kembla steel works slag dump last night when 30 tons of white hot slap tipped from a pump came into…

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Accident Victim Was on Bail

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday—Mrs. Bridget Brenda Clark (68), a widow and old-age pensioner,who fell 104ft. from the roof of the Hotel Canberra…

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Mt. Gipps Road Fatality Inquest

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 3

The joint inquests into the deaths of Charles David Thorpe (25), andi Laurel Olive Lower (31), the victims of the Mount Gipps road fatality on…

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May Miss Big Game Four Men on Injured List

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 3

THERE is a possibility that four of the 20 men selected to train for the Claremont mitch on Saturday will be forced to…

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Finding of Accidental Death

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—At the conclusion of the inquest at the Trafalgar Court into the death of Mervin Duff (25) the coroner found that he…

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Mt. Gipps Road Smash Coroner's Finding Of Accidental Death

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 3

A FINDING that Charles David Thorpe died on May 9 and Laurel Olive Lower on May 26 following injuries accidentally received when the…

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Mri Staker's Death Accidental Finding In Zinc Fatality Son's Story at Inquest

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 June 1939 · page 1

AFINDING that Alfred Staker (50), of 154, Bismuth Street, Railway Town, met his death accidentally at the Zinc Corporation mine on May 3, was given by the jury at the adjourned inquest today. The jury added…

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Film Stars Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 22 June 1939 · page 6

Erroll Flynn and his wife, Lili Damita, film stars, who were injured in a car accident in Hollywood yesterday when…

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