An employee of the Skeldon Sugar Estate sustained severe burns to his hands around 2 pm yesterday while working on the boiler and is currently a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital (NAH).
Dyanand Singh, of Skeldon, who is said to be in his 20s, was first rushed to the Skeldon Hospital in the estate’s ambulance where he received treatment. He was immediately transferred to the NAH, where his condition was listed as stable.
According to an eyewitness, Singh was “watching the conveyor belt [on the boiler] where the bagasse would run