On 22 February 2011, an earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand taking the lives of South Island Organ Company's foreman Neil Stocker and factory hand Scott Lucy. Paul Dunlop, a helper from Christchurch was also killed. The deceased were a part of a team of eight which was removing the organ of Christchurch's Durham Street Methodist Church which had been badly damaged by an earthquake the previous September, and was reduced to rubble by the February earthquake.