Minor Accidents
A piece of steel lodged in the left eye of Rex Woods, 18, of Beresfield, when he was at work in the railway workshops at Cardiff yesterday. He was given first aid by Lake…
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Accidents, 1941
877 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 44
Struck by Fall of Stone Miner's Death Accidental
A verdict of accidental death was returned by a jury of six at Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday when the District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) conducted…
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When the bicycle he was riding in Maitland-road, Mayfield, to-day was involved in a collision with a lorry. Gordon Newell, 20, of Carrington Parade, New Lambton,…
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While working at Martinsville a log rolled on the left lee of John Russell, 16, a bushworker, of Mulbring, and fractured it…
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Struck by a case which fell from a stack on which he was working, William Harris, 55, of Maitland-road, Hamilton, a wharf labourer employed on a Newcastle wharf,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Wednesday's fatal accident at Amberley, Queensland, in which an aircraft taking off collided with a second machine which was taxing, has…
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While she was walking on the Pacific Highway, near her home, a mile south of Swansea, about 8 o'clock on Saturday night, Mrs. Enid Veronica Twyford, 36,…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) at the Kurri Courthouse to-day when he held an…
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Two miners were admitted to Cessnock Hospital to-day after accidents in local collieries. Horace Mitchell, 52, of…
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Robert Caldwell, 19, of Hunter Street, Merewether, an apprentice employed at Cardiff railway workshops, had his left eye injured when a piece…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Aircraftsman Donald Want, of Narrandera training school, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River, two miles from his station, this…
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Janice Ann Twyford, aged 18 months, who was injured when her mother, Mrs. Enid Veronica Twyford, was killed on the Pacific Highway at Swansea, on Saturday…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) at Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday when he held an inquest into…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Monday.—Arthur William Berrigan. 18, died in hospital from injuries received when a motor-cycle he was riding collided head on with a…
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A sequel to the accident at Swansea on Saturday when a woman was killed and a baby critically injured was the appearance of Sidney Thomas Benton, 62, miner, in…
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Robert Foster, 29, of Carrington, a wheeler at Stockton Borehole Colliery, had to be treated for severe lacerations of the first and third fingers…
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Thomas Goodall, 55, miner, of Cumberland-street. Cessnock, injured his left leg while at work to-day at Aberdare Colliery…
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Douglas Russell (10), or Whyborne-st., Mayfield, a canteen attendant at Cardiff Railway Workshops, was treated for an eye injury at the works to-day…
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Alfred Gamer, 33, of Murray Street. Hamilton, an electric welder, had to be treated for lacerations and contusions to the toes and for shock…
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L. Abrahams was seriously injured when his mount Gold Stripe fell in the Baanya Trial Hurdle at Moonee Valley races this afternoon…
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