§ 44. Mr. Thorneasked the Minister of Supply whether he can give any information in connection with a man killed at a Royal Ordnance factory in the Midlands by coming in contact with an electric fence?
§ Major Sir James Edmondson (Treasurer of the Household)I have been asked to reply. At the inquest on Mr. Sidney Wilcox, the coroner returned a verdict of "Accidental death, due to shock, following contact with an inadvertently electrically charged fence wire." A Court of Inquiry into the circumstances of the accident is being held to-morrow.