The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Department is investigating a workplace fatality that occurred on Friday, September 20, 2024 at Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara.
A release from the Ministry said that the deceased was identified as 28-year-old labourer, Jermaine Hercules of Lot 4 Airy Hall, Mahaicony, who worked with a contractor who was engaged in conducting repairs to the roof of a rice mill.
According to reports, Hercules was repairing leaking sheets on the roof of A. Cayume Hakh & Sons, Rice Millers & Exporters when he fell 30 feet to the ground and was taken to the Mahaicony hospital where he was pronounced dead.