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Welder survives fall from four-storey building
A 22-year-old welder survived a 40-foot fall after he was flung from the roof of a four-storey building by an electrical surge while working yesterday morning.
Anthony Pellew, of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, is currently nursing a broken left foot, severe burns about his upper body and lacerations to his head.
His condition is listed as stable.
The injured Anthony Pellew in hospital
Eyewitnesses recalled seeing Pellew falling through a metal scaffold which was set up outside the Infinity fuel station building at the corner of Hadfield and High Streets.
He landed on the ground and immediately lost consciousness.
The injured man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he received emergency surgery that probably saved his life.
Speaking to this newspaper from his hospital bed, Pellew, the father of a four-month-old son, said that he was in the process of fixing the scaffold to resume work at about 10:00 hours. He said that he does not know what really happened.
“I was fixing the scaffold and that was it. When I do catch myself, is here I deh. I really don’t know exactly what happened to me there,” Pellew told this newspaper.
It is believed that Pellew may have come into contact with an exposed electrical wire and received electrical shocks that sent him crashing to the ground.
An employee in the building on which Pellew was working recalled seeing the lights go out for a few seconds, just around the time that the welder fell.
Since Pellew sustained burns about his body, everyone is convinced that he received electrical shocks.
This newspaper did not observe any high voltage wires on the premises in the vicinity where Pellew was working. However, eyewitnesses suggested that the wire may have been internal.
This newspaper was told that Pellew, who has been working on the building for the past two weeks, had sustained an injury at the site on a previous occasion.
On that occasion he was also lucky that a piece of metal only gashed his neck, but not deep enough to be considered serious.
The building with scaffolding that Pellew was working on when he fell.
Immediately after his fall, fellow employees halted work and turned up at the hospital to ascertain his condition.
A man, who identified himself as his foreman, assured this newspaper that he will ensure that the welder receives the best possible treatment and that his family will be taken care of during the time that he is hospitalized.
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