Killed by an Electric Shock: Fatal Accident at Saltley Works: An inquest was held on Friday before the Birmingham City Coroner (Mr. Isaac Bradley) on Herbert Ephraim Fisher (23), a machine riveter, of 2 court, 2 house, Inkerman Street, Aston, who was killed by receiving an electric shock at the works of the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, in Arden Road, on the previous Tuesday. Mr. F. E. Smith (Pinsent & Co.) appeared for the Metropolitan Carriage Company and Mr. F. Tarleton (Tunbridge and Co.,) for the insurance company concerned. Mr. Graves, Inspector of Factories, also attended. … evidence given (he touched an electrical lamp) … “Accidental Death.”
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