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Construction worker injured by falling zinc sheets
Nineteen-year-old Yajendra Lall is a patient in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following a mishap on Sunday when his end of a pile of 27 zinc sheets accidentally fell and landed on his left leg. The leg is broken in three places.
The young construction worker of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara related to Kaieteur News from his hospital bed that the accident occurred while he was on a job at a Houston, East Coast Demerara establishment to replace the old zinc sheets on the building. Also on site were the contractor tasked with the works and his uncle.
Injured: Yajendra Lall
Lall admitted that he could not remember much since he fell unconscious immediately after being hit, but explained that the group had already piled the old zinc sheets onto a forklift and were in the process of removing them and placing them onto the ground.
Lall’s mother, Rohani Balram explained the injured youth was then rushed to the hospital by the contractor and, after being attended to at the institution’s Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit, was admitted to the ward.
She said that he is expected to go into surgery on Monday.
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