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Broken Hill & the Far West · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Three People Injured In Stairway Collapse

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE.—Twenty people pitched 15ft to the floor when part of the rear stairway to Hoy[?]s Regent Theatre, South Yarra, collapsed as they were leaving on Saturday night. The stairway fell on Mrs…

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Man In Hospital Following Accident Hit Corf Near Imperial Dam

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 1

Last night a man was admitted to Hospital after he had collided with a cow while riding his motor cycle on the Wilcannia Road near Imperial Dam…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 2

V. Dobson sustained lacerations to the left hand at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. He was admitted to Hospital. W. R. Hocking injured his right foot…

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Accidental Death Finding

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 7

AT an inquest today into the deaths of David Ray Hebbard and Charles Sayers, the jury found that the men died from injuries accidentally received at the South mine No. 4 shaft on December 15 when…

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Inquest Into South Mine Fatality Verdict Of Accidental Death

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 3

In the inquest into the deaths of David Ray Hebbard (63). platman, and Charles Sayers (38). pipefitter, which was heard before the Coroner, Mr. A. V. Quiggin, in the Police Court yesterday, the jury brought in a verdict of accidental death due to…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 2

J. W. Wolds sustained a bruised left hip and right arm at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. He was taken home to 233 Wills Street…

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Six Seamen Drowned

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 5

PARIS, February 18. — Official figures of casualties in a United States launch accident in Marseilles Harbor are given as six sailors…

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Man Injured Finger

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 1

F. Coffey, of 212 Cornish Street a miner at the Zinc Corporation, suffered an injury to a finger of his left hand today. He received…

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Trains Collide in France 22 Killed—40 Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 1

Paris, February 18—Twenty-two persons, including eighteen girls, were killed and forty seriously injured when a goods train crashed head on into a passenger…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 1

R. O. Jacques had a splinter removed from under the nail of the second finger right hand yesterday at the Hospital. He then returned to his work at the Zinc…

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Men Injured In Explosion

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 1

Two men working on a sewerage connection in Marks Street yesterday were injured in an explosion when a missed charge was struck by a jack…

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Men Injured By Missed Charge

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 6

When a jack hammer struck a missed charge yesterday two men were injured in the explosion. The accident occurred in Marks Street…

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Young Man's Back Broken Accident At Nolyambo Station

Western Grazier · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 1

Rodney Worthington, a young men employed on Nelyambo Station, had his back broken last Thursday as the result of a fall from a horse. He is now in the Wilconnia Hospital. At the time of the accident Worthing…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 2

Francis Coney, of 212 Cornish Street, a miner at the zinc Corporation, suffered an injury to his left hand yesterday and was taken to the Hospital for treatment…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

A. Khan of 758 Chappie Street stained his back when working at the CPS yesterday. After treatment at the Hospital he was taken home to 758 Chappie…

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Slight Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

A number of slight Occidents occurred over the week-end. A collision between a motor cycle and a lorry occurred in Argent Street…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

Accidents on the mines today were: J. Huxtable, South Mine, injuries to back and taken home to 164 Ryan Street after treatment at…

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Two Slight Accidents

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

Two accidents were reported to the police on Saturday night. At 6.30 a van and car collided in Wolfram Street, at the Kaolin…

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Submariner Injured In Stranding

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

CAIRNS.—When the British submarine Aeneas ran aground on Eagle Island reef she was twothirds high and dry…

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Boy Fatally Injured at Cricket

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

A FIRST-YEAR student at High School died last night at his home as a result of a cricket ball having struck his head several…

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