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The Ministry of Labour has launched an investigation to ascertain the circumstances that led to the death of 42-year-old Clive Chisholm at the Haags Bosch dumpsite last Thursday.Newly appointed Minister of Labour Nanda Gopaul told Kaieteur News on Monday that the investigation is in the hands of officials from the Occupation Health and Safety Association (OHSA).Chisholm was reportedly crushed in one of the dumpsite pits by a truck which was reversing to discharge refuse. One report stated that he had disembarked from the truck to urinate when the mishap occurred.A bulldozer operator is said to have been the sole eyewitness. The mishap occurred at around 16:00 hrs, and some sources are puzzled that the truck driver failed to notice Chisholm.Questioned about the investigation, an official in the Ministry of Public Works said that Ministry is still awaiting statements from the police and from the supervisor who was operating at the dumpsite at the time.In addition, the company with which Chisholm was working with at the time of his death,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Cevons Waste Management, has since indicated that they will only stand the funeral expenses. However this is not going down well the man’s widow,Cheap NHL Jerseys, Rajnee Annie Beephan,Cheap Jerseys Supply, since she is now left the take care of the couple’s two young children who are both still in school. Chisholm was the sole breadwinner for his home and worked with Cevons during the day and with the Mayor and City Council at night.Meanwhile, on Monday, Minister Gopaul also met with officials from the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union, and officials from RUSAL in connection with the death of assistant surveyor Franklyn Reece,Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who was buried alive in a mining pit last October. Anthony Johnson, another assistant surveyor, sustained injuries in the disaster. Gopaul said that he is to speak again with the RUSAL officials before meeting again with the union.Reece,Cheap Jerseys USA, Johnson and Senior Supervisor Dion Ross were taking samples from the Block Five Mines, Kwakwani, when one of the walls of the pit collapsed. Reece was reportedly buried beneath a huge pile of rubble.Former Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir had told Kaieteur News that a preliminary investigation revealed that the wall of the pit was approximately five metres deep and it was constructed vertically,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, and this could have caused the structure to collapse.He explained that mining pits that are more than two metres deep should be constructed with sloping walls or should have reinforced walls.In addition,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, the fact that workers may have been using heavy duty equipment close to the poorly constructed pit could also have triggered the wall’s collapse, Nadir had said. |
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