From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/20/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Injured by Machinery. – On Saturday one of the workmen at the C.S. Arsenal, named Alexander Johnson, was badly injured by becoming entangled in a lathe over which he was working. He was caught by his jacket, and but for the fact that his cap fell off and impeded the revolutions of the machinery he would have been fatally injured. As it was he was badly cut and bruised about the arms, neck, and face.

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