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Mining pit cave-in leaves one dead

Jun 19, 2015 News

Yet another life has been snuffed out due to a mining pit cave-in, on this occasion at Jumbie Creek, Potaro.
Twenty-five year-old Orlando Archer of 65 Pattensen, South Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, succumbed despite doctors fighting vigorously to save his life at the Mahdia Hospital. The incident reportedly occurred at around 11:20hrs yesterday.
Archer was employed with Edward Hopkinson Mining. It is alleged that at the time of the cave-in, he was the lone individual in the pit.
An investigation into the matter is underway.
Archer’s demise comes exactly one month after a similar tragedy that claimed the lives of 10 miners in Mowasi, Potaro.
On May 17, last, a pit reportedly some 40-ft. deep collapsed, trapping and killing the men. The dead were listed as Leyland Jones, his nephew Jason Trotman, Raymond August, Bobby Brittlebank, Michael Gardner, Sheldon and Orlando Clario, Desmond Martins, Trevon Phillips and Nanmore Kurt.
In a herculean effort spanning an entire week, rescue workers braved rain and rough terrain to recover the bodies.
And on May 29, last, Thomas Anton, a diver of Kamarang died after some loose earth collapsed on him while he was operating mining equipment under water in the Quimenang River.

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