A foreman attached to the John Fernandes Wharf on Water Street Georgetown was on Tuesday crushed by a heavy-duty machine as it was moving containers from one location to another.
The dead man has been identified as 64-year-old Trevor Jones of Stevedore Housing Scheme in East Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
Based on reports received, the incident occurred at around 07:40h, after Jones had completed his midnight to 6:00h shift; and according to the report, the accident took place between the facility’s main entrance and the wharf.
Dead: Trevor Jones
A machine operator was reportedly moving a container when Jones was struck by the counterweight at the rear of the vehicle. He fell to the side of the machine, and sustained fatal injuries from its right rear wheel.
In a press statement, the Labour Ministry said an investigation has been launched into the incident by the Occupational Safety and Health Department. Minister Joseph Hamilton has expressed concern about workers being injured on the job, emphasizing the expectation by families that their loved ones would return home safely after work.
The site where the accident occurred
Minister Hamilton has extended sincere sympathy to the grieving relatives, co-workers, and friends of the deceased.
Investigations by the Ministry’s Occupational Safety and Health department are ongoing. Jones, who worked in a supervisory role at the wharf, had been employed with the company for more than 20 years.
This incident has occurred just two days after Lennox McPherson, a resident of Cinderella City in Linden, who had been employed by the Guyana Shield Resources Inc. at Dora on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was crushed to death.
He reportedly was pinned by the bucket of a Doosan Excavator against the track of an excavator just outside a sandpit at Dora on the East Bank of Demerara. An investigation has also been launched into his death.
