A carpenter attached the City Engineer’s Department sustained a broken wrist yesterday after he accidentally stepped on a rotted board and fell while he was engaged in repair works.
The injured man, who was identified as Michael Fraser, was said to have been a part of a team carrying out repair works on the first floor of the City Engineer’s Department, which is located in the City Hall compound.
City Engineer Colvern Venture, when contacted by this newspaper, stated that Fraser as a result of the accident fell from the first floor of the department and ended up on the ground floor.
He was taken to a city hospital, where he was treated for his injury and sent away.
Venture noted that the department had requisitioned for the materials to facilitate the ongoing work in March of this year but only received the materials during last week.
He said an examination of the department’s floor was previously done and the issues were identified, after which recommendations were made and materials for repairs were requested.
The engineer added that the floor where the incident occurred had been unoccupied since July, but is now being worked on given the delay in receiving the materials that were requested.
