A contractor died yesterday afternoon after he reportedly fell from the roof of a bond he was working on at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara.
He has been identified as Asraf Hoosaney, 34, of Lot 760 Block 8, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
Following the accident, which occurred around 2.30 pm, Hoosaney was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Stabroek News was told that Hoosaney and other workers, including his son Avinash (only name given), were on the bond when he slipped from the roof and fell to the ground.
At the dead man’s home yesterday afternoon, scores of family members and friends gathered after they received the shocking news of his death.
Up to late yesterday afternoon, Dhanpattie Beepat, his wife, told Stabroek News that she was still trying to gathered facts in relation to the circumstances surrounding her husband’s death. Beepat said while she was told that he fell from the building, there were conflicting reports suggesting that he was electrocuted. She explained that since Hoosaney’s death, she had not received any word from his employer.
A woman, who lives next to the bond, said she was in her house when she was alerted by screams coming from Avinash. “He holler to bring water and Limacol and when I watch is he father lay down there and he did stiff, stiff,” the woman said.
During the past few months there have been numerous workplace accidents, most, if not all, of which were widely believed to have been avoidable.
The most recent occurred last Friday, when handyman Leroy Bennett, 19, of Alness Village, Corentyne, died after he fell from the roof of a rice mill in Berbice, where he was fixing pipes.
