The investigation into the death of 30-year-old Cindy Jattan who was employed at the Gafoor’s Land of Canaan Complex, is still open and is expected to be completed within days according to Occupational and Health Safety Consultant for the Ministry of Labour, Gwenneth King.
Jattan, who was employed as a bond clerk at the company, was crushed to death on the afternoon of August 26 when a wooden rack containing a variety of hardware material fell on her.
Jattan’s father, Surindra Jattan, had previously told Stabroek News that the wooden rack was approximately 4 feet above his daughter’s working area when it collapsed, pinning her to the ground.
“Well the warehouse where she works, her office or her work space where she sits to do all her requisitions or what have you, it’s [under] a materials rack where all types of materials are hung on it. It’s not just windows, it’s a set of hardware like bolts, doors, every hardware that you could think about is everything went hanging from at the top of her working space and it’s approximately forty feet from above and it just collapsed on my daughter and that’s what we heard.
“We heard that she was sitting at that moment when the thing happen and so she couldn’t go right or left, she was in a half enclosed area so she actually went sitting when this thing occur. All of it just came down, covering her and these boxes were so heavy…she couldn’t make it because it’s like all the beams start collapsing on her and just took her life away… I was not there but I heard it took like half hour to pull her out. She died on the spot,” explained the deceased woman’s father.
Meanwhile, during a press briefing last week, Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, had noted that the investigation will have to reveal if the tragedy could have been avoided and stated that such matter is being investigated by his “technical people.”
