Courtesy of Allison Nepper Hales:
Worker Dies Of Injuries
John L. Chamberlain, 35, of 4021 5th Ave., an employee of the Berwind Railway Service Co. at East Hollidaysburg, was fatally injured while at work at 8.30 p.m. yesterday.
According to information received from relatives, John had cut a piece of metal with a cutting torch and was smoothing it on a large grindstone preparatory to welding it to another piece of metal when the grindstone disintegrated.
One large section of the stone penetrated his rib cage, causing a wound which proved fatal within 20 minutes after the accident. Death occurred at the Altoona Hospital, to which he was taken by ambulance.
It was the second fatal accident in the Berwind White organization this week. Earlier a welder was killed in the Johnstown facility when he was struck on the head by a large steel pillar while repairing a tractor-trailer railway car.
Mr. Chamberlain was born in Williamsburg March 19, 1933, a son of John B. and Ethel (McConahy) Chamberlain, and married in Winchester, Va.
Surviving are his wife, four children, Cynthia May, Jaqueline Kay, Amy Jo and Jon E., all at home; his mother of Altoona, and seven sisters, Mrs. Lorrain Thomas of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Caroline Hunter, Mrs. Betty Kehoe, Mrs. Doris Keith and Mrs. Joan Ferguson of Altoona, Mrs. Patricia Summers of Patrick AFB, Fla., and Mrs. Janet Houck of Ganister.
He was a veteran of three years' service in the Air Force and was discharged in 1953.
Altoona Mirror - 8/16/1968 - p. 1
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Blair County Veteran: Korea
John Chamberlain, A 2/C, USAF
Worker Dies Of Injuries
John L. Chamberlain, 35, of 4021 5th Ave., an employee of the Berwind Railway Service Co. at East Hollidaysburg, was fatally injured while at work at 8.30 p.m. yesterday.
According to information received from relatives, John had cut a piece of metal with a cutting torch and was smoothing it on a large grindstone preparatory to welding it to another piece of metal when the grindstone disintegrated.
One large section of the stone penetrated his rib cage, causing a wound which proved fatal within 20 minutes after the accident. Death occurred at the Altoona Hospital, to which he was taken by ambulance.
It was the second fatal accident in the Berwind White organization this week. Earlier a welder was killed in the Johnstown facility when he was struck on the head by a large steel pillar while repairing a tractor-trailer railway car.
Mr. Chamberlain was born in Williamsburg March 19, 1933, a son of John B. and Ethel (McConahy) Chamberlain, and married in Winchester, Va.
Surviving are his wife, four children, Cynthia May, Jaqueline Kay, Amy Jo and Jon E., all at home; his mother of Altoona, and seven sisters, Mrs. Lorrain Thomas of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Caroline Hunter, Mrs. Betty Kehoe, Mrs. Doris Keith and Mrs. Joan Ferguson of Altoona, Mrs. Patricia Summers of Patrick AFB, Fla., and Mrs. Janet Houck of Ganister.
He was a veteran of three years' service in the Air Force and was discharged in 1953.
Altoona Mirror - 8/16/1968 - p. 1
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Blair County Veteran: Korea
John Chamberlain, A 2/C, USAF
Courtesy of Allison Nepper Hales:
Worker Dies Of Injuries
John L. Chamberlain, 35, of 4021 5th Ave., an employee of the Berwind Railway Service Co. at East Hollidaysburg, was fatally injured while at work at 8.30 p.m. yesterday.
According to information received from relatives, John had cut a piece of metal with a cutting torch and was smoothing it on a large grindstone preparatory to welding it to another piece of metal when the grindstone disintegrated.
One large section of the stone penetrated his rib cage, causing a wound which proved fatal within 20 minutes after the accident. Death occurred at the Altoona Hospital, to which he was taken by ambulance.
It was the second fatal accident in the Berwind White organization this week. Earlier a welder was killed in the Johnstown facility when he was struck on the head by a large steel pillar while repairing a tractor-trailer railway car.
Mr. Chamberlain was born in Williamsburg March 19, 1933, a son of John B. and Ethel (McConahy) Chamberlain, and married in Winchester, Va.
Surviving are his wife, four children, Cynthia May, Jaqueline Kay, Amy Jo and Jon E., all at home; his mother of Altoona, and seven sisters, Mrs. Lorrain Thomas of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Caroline Hunter, Mrs. Betty Kehoe, Mrs. Doris Keith and Mrs. Joan Ferguson of Altoona, Mrs. Patricia Summers of Patrick AFB, Fla., and Mrs. Janet Houck of Ganister.
He was a veteran of three years' service in the Air Force and was discharged in 1953.
Altoona Mirror - 8/16/1968 - p. 1
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Blair County Veteran: Korea
John Chamberlain, A 2/C, USAF
Worker Dies Of Injuries
John L. Chamberlain, 35, of 4021 5th Ave., an employee of the Berwind Railway Service Co. at East Hollidaysburg, was fatally injured while at work at 8.30 p.m. yesterday.
According to information received from relatives, John had cut a piece of metal with a cutting torch and was smoothing it on a large grindstone preparatory to welding it to another piece of metal when the grindstone disintegrated.
One large section of the stone penetrated his rib cage, causing a wound which proved fatal within 20 minutes after the accident. Death occurred at the Altoona Hospital, to which he was taken by ambulance.
It was the second fatal accident in the Berwind White organization this week. Earlier a welder was killed in the Johnstown facility when he was struck on the head by a large steel pillar while repairing a tractor-trailer railway car.
Mr. Chamberlain was born in Williamsburg March 19, 1933, a son of John B. and Ethel (McConahy) Chamberlain, and married in Winchester, Va.
Surviving are his wife, four children, Cynthia May, Jaqueline Kay, Amy Jo and Jon E., all at home; his mother of Altoona, and seven sisters, Mrs. Lorrain Thomas of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Caroline Hunter, Mrs. Betty Kehoe, Mrs. Doris Keith and Mrs. Joan Ferguson of Altoona, Mrs. Patricia Summers of Patrick AFB, Fla., and Mrs. Janet Houck of Ganister.
He was a veteran of three years' service in the Air Force and was discharged in 1953.
Altoona Mirror - 8/16/1968 - p. 1
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Blair County Veteran: Korea
John Chamberlain, A 2/C, USAF
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