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Estate worker, 17, dies after struck by lightning
A 17-year-old sugar worker died yesterday at the West Demerara Regional Hospital after being struck by lightning shortly after midday.
Dead is Klein Roberts who was attached to the rodent control gang at the Wales Sugar Estate West Bank Demerara.
According to reports, Roberts was carrying out a rat-baiting exercise when tragedy struck. Yesterday at the West Demerara hospital, the teen’s mother, Maxine Jacobs, told Kaieteur News that she was at home when her partner received a call from one of his colleagues at the Wales Estate, informing him that the teenager was in an accident.
Klein Roberts
“When he come off the phone, he tell me that Klein met with an accident and he going to the dispensary to check and I tell he that I going with he, but he tell me not to go and when he left, a little after, I catch a bus and I go,” the devastated mother told Kaieteur News.
She explained that as soon as she arrived at the estate, she saw her partner exiting the compound with a sad face.
“I go to he and I ask he what happen, and he say that Klein dead and I break down right there,” the mother recounted. According to Jacobs, her son had only started working at the estate three weeks ago.
The mother of eight said when she saw his body, there were black spots on the head and the chest was black and blue.
“Is only yesterday (Thursday) he come and tell me that two men get shock up by the lightning at work on Tuesday and I ask he if dem dead and he seh no and I tell he fuh be careful, but look what gone and happen,” Jacobs told Kaieteur News.
Also yesterday lightning shocked at least seven sugar workers at Blairmont estate, West Coast Berbice. According to GuySuco’s Human Resource Manager Jairam Pitam, six workers were injured. He told Kaieteur News that five were treated in Berbice and one was transferred to the Georgetown Hospital. The men were loading a punt at the time of the incident.
The teen’s mother being consoled by relatives yesterday at the hospital
Meanwhile, Pitam told Kaieteur News that GuySuco would be taking care of the burial expenses for the dead teenager. He added that the family will be visited by company officials.
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