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TAMPERING WITH ELECTRIC CABLE.
GUARD WIRE REMOVED FROM
AN INSTALLATION.
Interference by some unknown person with an electric installa. tion belonging to the China Light and Power Company near a house in the course of construction in Shapo Road partly caused the death, on July 16 last, of a work man who grasped the wire and Was electrocuted. The fatality had a sequel before Mr. "Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon when a Coro ner's inquiry, with the assistance of a jury, was held into the cir- cumstances of the mishap.
The evidence of Dr. T. W. Ware showed that death was due to shock which might have been caused by any way as there were no external signs of violence or disease. Neither the clothes nor the man's body bore signs of burning, but the findings of the post mortem examination were con sistent with death by electrocu- tion.
Was
In cases of sudden electrocu- tion, continued the witness, there burning, generally some while on the other hand it was not usual for a person to be killed by such a low voltage as in the present case.
The witness mentioned that in the case of a low voltage there might not be enough current to cause burning, and it very seldom killed. People differed consider- ably, however, in their response to electric burning. Witness im- self had had a shock with 240 volts without any apparent effects, but witness had only touched the wire with one hand while the de- censed appeared to have touched it with both.
FRIDAY, AUGUS
8. 1930.
PRESIDENT
line conductors running alongside ed. Witness sald that he himself the building were tied up to the had fastailed the wires about 14 bamboo scaffolding around the for 16 months ago. There were building, apparently done by the no houses there then. A guard contractor's workmen,
wire forming a cradle around the The following morning witness wires had been installed but that again visited the site to take volt had since been removed. The meter readings. The conditions scaffolding could not have been were particularly the same as on erected unless the guard had been the day of the fatality. The volt taken away.
Witness added that the guard meter registered, between the line conductor and the broken portion wire had been removed without of guard wire on the pole, 205 the knowledge or permission of volts and between the line con- the China Light and Power Co..
Addressing the jury the Coro- ductor and the wet concrete" on the balustrade where the dener intimated that there was no ceased had been standing, 150 doubt the man bad died of elec
trocution as a result of leaning In reply to the Coroner witness out and taking hold of the con- gave it as bis opinion that the deducting line. The question for ceased had attempted to climb the jury to consider was whether onto the scaffolding and grasped there had been any negligence by the wire for that purpose. The anybody. He thought they would fact that the man was wearing a agree that it was quite clear the pair of rubber shoes would reduce China Light and Power Company the shock, but the insulating pro- could not in any way be held res perties of the class of rubber on ponsible because the installation erected before the the shoes would not be very good had been on a wet surface and also it was houses were commenced. probable that the man had ceived the shock through both hands and not through his feet at al3.
volts.
:
re-
The China Light and Power Co. had taken the necessary precau tions although the contractor had not seen the guard wires. The Power Co. Fulfil Conditions. Coroner thought that he must Witness intimated that the in-have failed to see them or had stallation had been erected before forgotten he had seen them.
Jury's Rider. the commencement of building
If there had been negligence at operations. He pointed out that
on the according to law the Power Com all that negligence was pany had to erect wires which part of the person who had pull- were inaccessible from buildings, ed down the guard. The contrac- but this did not arise, as the tor had stated that somebody else wires were there first. It was in-had orected the scaffolding and it. that the guard wires would be hopeless to try to find timated would have been some obstruc-out who had actually been, the tion against people grasping the person who had pulled down the conducting line. The insulation, guard wire. Even if they did it would not necessarily follow that said witness, was good.
Mr. Wadeson pointed out that there would have been no ac- according to the conditions of the cident.
to He could not see any other ver- contractor's permit he had satisfy himself that ecaffolding diet than one of death by mis- was not erected in proximity to adventure, but the jury could criti- electric wires. The contractor in make recommendations or
had not only cisms if they wished. An employee on the building, the present case
The jury returned à verdict of who was working together with ignored that but had removed the
death by misadventure and added the deceased at about noon on guard wires of the cable, July 16, intimated that whilst en- Chung Sang, master of the a rider to the effect that in the gaged in work he suddenly heard Chung Sang Kee contractors, in-case of new-buildings the builder a cry of pain and saw the de timated that he did not notice any or contractor should be required ceased holding the electric wireguard wires protecting the cable. to communicate with the China which was just outside the build-He had appreciated the danger of Light and Power Company or ing. After knocking deceased's building near the wires and had other electric companies, intimat- hand away with a piece of board warned his workmen accordingly. ing that building was to be started the workmen tried to revive him, Witness was of the opinion that near an electric installation.
Mr. Wadeson assured the Court but without success. It was rain-the deceased had leaned over the
receive ing heavily at the time and had verandah to see whether the work-that should his clients been all the morning.
men down below had knocked off notification as directed in the work. The scaffolding had not Jury's rider they would take the. necessary steps. to safeguard workmen engaged on the site.
Mr. Clarke intimated that a At the suggestion of Mr. Wade-contractor was already required son. Mr. A.J. V. Smith, of the to notify the authorities as re- China Light and Power was call-commended by the jury.
Technical Evidence.
Mr. A. E. Clarke, senior inspec-been erected by him.
tor of works of the. P.W.D., said that at 4 p.m. on July 16 he visit ed the building in question and examined the electric wires. After describing the installation, wit- ness said that the wires were 18 inches distant from the outside, edge of the building and the line conductors were accessible from the verandah.
Continuing, witness said that the line conductors, although ap 10 amparently rubber insulated, were, 3 pm, owing to the heavy rain, saturated 3 p.m.with water and the condition of. 3 pm, the first floor balcony of
building, on which the deceased was working. enabled the ceased to form a circuit through his body to earth and receive shock from probably 150 to volts.
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It was also likely that the de- censed had one hand, on the line conductor and the other on the noon. metal arm or small portion guard wire fixed to the arm, which case he probably received. 200 volts shock.
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Guard Wires Removed. There were no guard wires pro- itecting the line conductors but there was evidence of guard wires having been fixed and apparently removed during the progress the construction of the new build- ing. Witness also observed two,
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