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Mason walks away with bruises after 3-storey fall
Twenty-eight-year-old mason Clinton Paul believes that it was some sort of a miracle that he did not sustain any major injuries after falling to the ground from three stories high.
Clinton Paul awaiting treatment at the Georgetown Hospital.
Paul was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning and sent home hours after falling from a scaffold attached to a New Garden Street building under construction.
Apart from a few bruises, X-rays revealed that he did not suffer any significant damage, and Paul is determined to return to work after a few days’ rest over the Easter weekend.
“Is meh wuk and I gat fuh go. If I gat fuh go back on height I gat fuh do it,” a determined Paul told this newspaper after he was released from the hospital.
Kaieteur News understands that Paul was applying plaster to the exterior wall of the top flat of the three-storey structure when the scaffold gave way.
He said that he was about to stand on the scaffold, which was constructed of greenheart, when he felt the platform shift under his weight.
The next thing he knew he was on the ground some 30 feet below.
Miraculously, Paul remained conscious all the time, despite experiencing severe pain in several parts of his body. He was picked up and rushed to the Georgetown Hospital where he received immediate attention.
The young man who hails from Annandale on the East Coast of Demerara is thankful to the Almighty, and opined that there must be some divine reason for his state following the mishap.
He was assured by his employers that he will get all the necessary assistance he requires during the period that he is out of work.
Almost a month ago another construction worker was hospitalized after a 40-foot fall from a building on High Street.
Twenty-two-year-old welder Anthony Pellew, of Bachelor’s Adventure, also on the East Coast of Demerara, was flung from the roof of a four-storey building by an electrical surge.
He suffered a broken left leg, severe burns about the upper body and lacerations to the head. He was recently discharged from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
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