The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department is currently probing the workplace accident that occurred at Kwakwani, Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice), on the morning of May 14, 2024 that injured two employees.
The investigation, which is being conducted by OSH Officer, Ray Hosannah, revealed that two Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) employees, identified as forty-six-year-old Rigger Supervisor, Nigel Whoul, and thirty-four-year-old Rigger, Toyland Crawford, were injured while conducting maintenance work on the communication tower at the Kwakwani Exchange location.
According to reports, Crawford was up twenty feet from a one-hundred-sixty feet tower when it collapsed and hit Whoul, who was at the base of the tower.
They were both rushed to the Kwakwani Hospital for treatment.
Interviews have so far been conducted with the injured persons, and the investigation is ongoing.
