A mother of one was electrocuted on Thursday while operating a machine at her workplace at Plantation Great Diamond East Bank Demerara (EBD)
Dead is 40-year-old Sherly Winter of Rams Cane Field Drive Friendship EBD. According to the information received, the now-dead woman was employed at Flexotech Inc for over five years.
Speaking to the Guyana Times, Camille Ramtahal, the sister-in-law of the deceased woman, stated that she was at home when she received a call from the woman’s workplace informing her of the incident.
“They called us to let us know that she get shock and that she was at the hospital and they think that she passed away, that’s the news we got. But when I talked to the manager, he said she was working on the machine and they didn’t know what happened. The operator in front of her heard her scream and he rushed to see what was happening… it was then they found her next to where she was working back against the machine.”
CPR was administered to resuscitate her, but it failed. She was taken to the Diamond Public Hospital where she was pronounced dead. A post-mortem performed on her body revealed that she died from electric shocks.
When contacted for a comment from the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Unit at the Labour Ministry, an official stated that they are presently investigating the incident. While she could not confirm if Winter was electrocuted, she noted that the matter was being treated as a fatal workplace incident. The woman is mourned by her son.
