Tragedy struck at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Ground in Linden on Tuesday when 43-year-old Cledwin Richards, a resident of the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, lost his life in a freak accident.
The labourer’s body lying motionless after the incident (Photo credits Info10)
According to reports,Richards, who had also been known as ‘Fatboy’ or ‘Junior’, was working along with a 65-year-old operator from Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, preparing piles at the construction site to be driven into the earth when he walked on one of the six piles which were stacked on each other and reportedly slipped and fell between another set of piles that were on the ground.
As a result, the pile on which he was walking reportedly tumbled and fell on his head, pinning him in the process.
The incident was reported to the Police, who arrived on scene to that the other workers had already removed the pile and Richards’s motionless body was lying on the ground. The injured man was taken to the Linden Hospital Complex, where he was pronounced dead.
His body is awaiting a post-mortem examination.
