Labourer crushed to death by falling concrete slab
Ragunandan Singh, a 47-year -old labourer of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice, died shortly after 8:00h on Thursday, January 30, after a concrete slab fell on him as he was breaking bricks from an abandoned house at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne.
This section of the wall has been left standing after the slab had fallen on Singh
Reports are that Singh would dismantle the concrete structure by breaking it to form bricks, which he would sell in his home community.
On Thursday morning, Singh was reportedly engaged in this activity when a solid concrete slab measuring about 10 feet by 12 feet fell and pinned him to the ground.
He sustained several serious injuries, and when the police arrived on scene, his lifeless body was taken to the Skeldon Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
His body is presently at the Skeldon Public Hospital Mortuary, awaiting a post mortem examination.
Singh’s mother Eliza Dhanmattie told investigators that her son had left home at about 6:30h to go to the abandoned building to break bricks, and she received information of what had transpired at about 8:30h.
Dhanmattie, a pensioner, said her son earned a living by selling bricks, which are used to fill low areas in people’s yards in the community.
