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Company awaiting meeting with Labour Ministry on compensation

Feb 14, 2011 News


Barama wood shredder death…
Officials at the Barama Timber Company are waiting for the Ministry of Labour to arrange a meeting to decide on compensation for relatives of 19-year-old Jason Fraser, whose mangled remains were found in a wood shredder at Barama’s Buckhall, Essequibo location last year.
“We are waiting for a meeting to be convened with the Ministry of Labour to move forward on talks concerning settlement,” Barama’s Head of Corporate Affairs Mohindra Chand told Kaieteur News on Friday.
The Chief Labour Officer is facilitating this decision.”
Chand said that officials from the timber company had checked with the Ministry of Labour two months ago to ascertain when the meeting will be held.
He said that attempts were also made to contact the dead labourer’s family.
According to Chand, the company takes out life insurance policies on all of its employees. He said that the insurance company would give the policy holder three years of his annual salary.
Fraser’s mangled corpse was found in the shredder after workers became aware of an unpleasant odour near the machine, which prompted a senior official to check the device.
According to the brother, the official also became suspicious after placing his hand in the machine and observing blood on his fingers.
After summoning the police, the staff dismantled the shredder and eventually discovered the labourer’s mangled remains.
The body parts were placed in two plastic sacks and taken to a hospital mortuary.
A statement by company officials said that Fraser died “as a result of a very unfortunate incident involving one of our chipper machines located at the Barama Buckhall Factory.”

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