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DOCOL experiences another electrical mishap
After experiencing two fires last year, the Demerara Oxygen Company (DOCOL) last Wednesday experienced another mishap at 11:15 hrs. This time, it was electrical in nature at the company’s operations site at Eccles, East Bank Demerara. 
According to sources, the company was closed for the rest of the day until the fault was found and rectified.
This newspaper learnt that when employees ran out of the building after the electrical fire, teachers from Eccles Primary School, located opposite DOCOL, enquired if there was another fire. Senior DOCOL officials told them that it was not a fire but that “African bees were in the place. They say they don’t want the media to know neither the Ministry of Labour.”
It was further disclosed that there are major problems with the electrical wiring at DOCOL and officials are covering up the issues.
“Is sheer old thing they got all over the place; it needs to be rewired. Two electricians nearly died. If one of them was two feet closer to the electric problem, 4,400 volts would have knocked him….The wires taped up they don’t want to buy anything new,” the source disclosed. “I am afraid for the people working there. They could lose their lives easily.”
No official was at the company’s head office yesterday in Eccles to comment on the issue.
Firefighters were summoned to Demerara Oxygen Company (DOCOL) last October and again in December to extinguish fire that broke out at the gas plant, at the company’s operations site at Eccles, East Bank Demerara
Workers were evacuated from the building and a children’s Christmas party was disrupted.
It was disclosed that there was a mini explosion that was traced to a generator that was located close to the gas plant. It was set alight by a combination of vapour and heat. In October, three employees of DOCOL were also injured in a freak accident at the company’s operations site, they were; Heera Persaud and Rabindranauth Ramdhani, both of Leonora, and Mirvel Richards of Bagostville.
DOCOL’s Chief Executive Officer, Shameer Hoosein, had previously said that the company had recruited experts to fix the equipment that caused a previous explosion.
According to an official from the Ministry of Labour, an investigation had been previously carried out in the wake of the last explosion that occurred in October, and recommendations were made to the company.
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