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Halifax Evening Courier 31 Dec 1930
SCAFFOLD COLLAPSES - Workmen Impaled On Railings
Inquiry Into Double Halifax Fatality
Sitting with a Jury, Mr E W Norris (H.M. Coroner) yesterday resumed the inquest on Edwin Nelson (39), a master plasterer, of 3 Royal Oak Terrace, King Cross, and Joseph Smith (27) plasterer, of 6 Senior's Buildings, Range Bank, who both died in the Halifax infirmary following the collapse of a scaffold on which they were working.
On Dec 1 Nelson and Smith (who was employed by Nelson), were pointing a house in Beech Hill Terrace, Halifax and the scaffolding on which they were standing collapsed. Both men sustained severe injuries and were taken to the Halifax Infirmary. Smith died a few hours after the accident and Nelson died on Dec 4.
Mr Le Couteur, H.M. Factory Inspector was present.
James Nelson, 17, Freedom Street, Commercial Road, Halifax, a plasterer, said that he joined his brother Edwin Nelson, and Smith on the afternoon of Dec 1. When he arrived they were working on a plank fixed to two brackets about 14 ft. from the ground, and had nearly finished the top part of the wall. Witness waited for them to come down. His brother came down three steps and then went back onto the plank and brushed the wall. He was about to step back on the ladder when one of the brackets gave way and the plank on which the men were standing fell to the ground. Both men fell on some railings, falling on their stomachs. Witness went with them to the Infirmary. Witness later examined the bracket and found that corrosion had caused it to break where one side was let onto the other side.
Ronald Longbottom, 11 Beech Hill Terrace, a teamster, said he saw both men help to fasten the brackets to the wall.
Clifford Shoesmith, a tobacconist in business at 65 Commercial Street, Halifax, said he heard a crash and then saw the men and the plank fall to the ground.
Dr J G Craig, house surgeon at the Halifax Infirmary, said that Smith was suffering from shock and internal hemorrhage and he died at 5:20 pm. Nelson was also suffering from shock. He appeared a little better next morning but later showed signs of a general peritonitis and died on the evening of Dec 4 following an operation for drainage of the abdomen.
The jury returned verdicts of accidental death.
| Owner of original | footies.co.uk |
| Date | 31 Dec 1930 |
| Dimensions | 528 x 1812 |
| Linked to | Edwin Nelson |
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