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49. Accidents were few during the year and include the following:-
Buffer Stop Collision..... 1
Running through the points......... 1
Engine Derailments 1
Wagon do. 3
One of the two Railway employees killed was a Block Operator, who was knocked down by a train while crossing the Main Line at Hunghom after receiving the token of an empty train. The other, a train examiner, was run over by a train during shunting operations at Shumchun. The remaining three deaths are those of two Chinese (male) and one Chinese (female) who were run over while trespassing on the Railway.
50. The health of the Staff has been good. First Aid instruction has been carried out as in previous years: 12 men obtained the certificates of St. John's Ambulance, and Railway badges for proficiency in First Aid were awarded to 15 men including the above. First Aid boxes are kept at the Stations and also carried on the trains.
51. Mr. J. Smith who was in charge of the Locomotive Department during the absence of the Locomotive Superintendent in America last year, was on February 1st, appointed Works Foreman, Locomotive Department.
Date, 5th April, 1923.
ROBERT BAKER,
Manager.
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49. Accidents were few during the year and include the
following:-
Buffer Stop Collision.....
1
Running through the points......... 1
Engine Derailments
Wagon
do.
To Railway Employees..
35
Passengers..... Trespassers
2 (Shunting) 3
Involving Serious Death. Injury.
Minor
Injury.
2
1
3
3
One of the two Railway employees killed was a Block Operator, who was knocked down by a train while crossing the Main Line at Hunghom after receiving the token of an empty train. The other, a train examiner, was run over by a train during shunting oper- ations at Shumchun. The remaining three deaths are those of two Chinese (male) and one Chinese (female) who were run over while trespassing on the Railway.
50. The health of the Staff has been good. First Aid instruc- tion has been carried out as in previous years: 12 men obtained the certificates of St. John's Ambulance, and Railway badges for proficiency in First Aid were awarded to 15 men including the above. First Aid boxes are kept at the Stations and also carried on the trains.
51. Mr. J. Smith who was in charge of the Locomotive Depart- ment during the absence of the Locomotive Superintendent in America last year, was on February 1st, appointed Works Foreman, Locomotive Department.
Date, 5th April, 1923.
ROBERT BAKER,
Manager.
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