A West Berbice labourer is now dead after being electrocuted at his home while working with an angle grinder.
Dead is 21-year-old Claymont Doris, called “Clay” of Lovely Lass Village, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice). The incident occurred last Wednesday shortly after mid-day.
Reports are that Doris returned home and took the angle grinder to cut some steel rods in the yard.
His girlfriend Carlica Craig reported that she left him working and made a brief trip to a nearby shop and when she returned, she found him unresponsive on the ground, with the angle grinder lying on his chest.
A damaged angle grinder with exposed wiring was noticed. There were what appeared to be burnt marks on the left side of his chest.
A police officer assisted it taking the lifeless man to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
An autopsy performed on the body the following day by Government Pathologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan gave the cause of death as fibrillation of the heart due to electric shock. (G4)
