The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
MAN Is THROWN
FROM PLATFORM
Antonio DeCono, American
Brass Employee, Dies
From Injuries.
HIT BY CRANE LOAD
Victim Receives a Fractured
Skull when He Is Hurled
Eight Feet to Ground.

Hurled headIong from platform OH
which he was working, Antonio De-
Como, aged 55 years, long an employee
of the American Brass company here,
was fatally injured late Thursday
afternoon when he was struck by a
load of brass tubing carried by the
travelling crane in an accident in the
tube mill of that factory. DeCono
was hurled from the platform, receiv-
ing a fractured skull; he never re-
covered consciousness, dying just
after eleven o'clock at the Kenosha
hospital, after an operation had failed
to save his life.
THE remains were taken 70 the Han
sen Funeral home on Park avenue.
They will probably be taken later to-
day to the home of the deceased at
210 North Edward street.
Injured While at Work.
Coroner Truman 7. Parker made a
thorough investigation into the acct
dent this morning establishing the ex-
act manner in which the workman
met the injuries which resulted in
his death.
According to the information given
to the coroner by witnesses, DeCono,
who for several years has been en-
ployed to take charge of the dies in
this department, was returning two
dies to a workman on the ground
floor when he was hit and hurled
from the platform.
The crane, which is operated by a
man at the far end of the room, was
carrying a large bundle of brass tubes
near the platform. The operator rails
ed the bundle slightly, this causing it
to swing and strike DeCono, who was
on the edge of the platform to hand
the materials he had taken from the
racks to another workman.
Hurried to Hospital
The bundle carried by the crane
swerved just enough to strike De
Como and hurl him to the ground
floor eight feet below. He fell on
his head and shoulders.
Arthur Layton, foreman Of the de-
partment in which the accident oc-
Cured, was the first to reach the I'M
conscious man. A physician was sum
moned Immediately and after first aid
methods failed to revive the injured
man, he was hurried to the hospital,
where he died few hours later.
Antonio DeCono had long been en-
ployed at the Americaon Brass COM
pany and was widely known among
the workers of that plant. He had
been a most efficient workman.
Surviving the deceased are a wife
and several children. Funeral serv-
ices for the late Antonio DeCono will
be held at the Holy Rosary church on
Monday morning at nine o'clock with
interment following at St. James
cemetery.
No Inquest Necessary.
After making a thorough investi-
cation of the case, Coroner Truman
T. Parker stated that no formal in
quest into the death was necessary, it
being shown that it was clearly acct
dental, The operator of the crane
was exonerated by any blame for the
accident. 1t was stated that the only
reason for an inquest would be to es-
tablish liability involved and that I'M
der the workman's compensation act,
this was established all ready.
The death was the sixth by vio-
lence which has occurred in Kenosha
in the last five days, setting a record
for the coroner's Office. On Sunday
two were killed in an auto crash, on
Monday lad was drowned at Ander-
son Park, on Tuesday Kenosha man
was shot, dying Wednesday from the
injuries, on Thursday a sixteen year
old boy was crushed under a truck
and late Thursday afternoon this
workman was killed at the American
Brass company.