The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department has begun a probe into the workplace fatality that occurred at the Springhall sluice located at Farm/Woodlands, West Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (E.C.D).
Sluice operator, Leevorn Stanford McGarrel, 54, of High Dam, Mahaicony, ECD, and an employee of the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) died in the incident, according to a release from the ministry.