Teen critical after co-worker turned on cement mixer while he was inside

Family members of 18-year-old Ricardo Nandlall, a labourer at the Forrester Lumber and Building Complex at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, are hoping for the best after the teen sustained injuries when a co-worker turned on a ‘cement mixer’ while he was inside.

According to Police, the co-worker was unaware that the teen was inside the machine cleaning it.
Nandlall, of South De Kinderen Line-Top, West Coast Demerara, who sustained injuries to his abdomen and had his intestines protruding, is currently battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).
It was reported that on Friday, at about 15:45h, a doctor from the Leonora Cottage Hospital contacted the Police Station and requested that a rank visit the institution in relation to the matter.
Ranks were unable to speak with the victim, and as such proceeded to the worksite at Stewartville, WCD. There, the proprietor was questioned by the investigators, and he revealed that the teen had gone into the mixer to clean it, but in the process, a 22-year-old operator who was unaware that the young man was inside the machine, turned it on.
As soon as the machine came on, Nandlall began to scream. Upon realising that he was inside the machine, the mixer was turned off and several other coworkers rushed to his assistance, pulling him out of the machine.
They then took him to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, from whence he was referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
The co-worker who turned on the cement mixer has been detained by the Police.
Regional Commander Errol Watts has indicated that the co-worker remains in custody on the prisoner’s bench as the Police await updates on the victim’s condition.
“Given at the moment his actions were not malicious, but suspected to be that of negligence,” the Commander added.