A 27-year-old worker of KAM Metal Built-in Firm, Yahaya Ibrahim, was killed by an engine curler after slipping on the machine on the firm’s manufacturing unit alongside the Sagamu-Ogijo Expressway in Ogun State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday at 4:50 am whereas the deceased was working on the firm’s plant.
The Ogun State Police Command completely confirmed this throughout a cellphone dialog with our correspondent on Sunday.
Our correspondent learnt that Ibrahim was working the engine curler when he instantly slipped and fell onto the curler within the early hours of Sunday.
PUNCH Metro gathered that efforts by different workers members to rescue the sufferer have been unsuccessful, because the curler reportedly crushed him to loss of life.
The spokesperson for the command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident and said that the deceased’s physique had been taken to the Olabisi Onabanjo College Instructing Hospital morgue.
“Our males on visitors inspection visited the scene once we obtained a misery name. It was an industrial accident. The physique has been deposited on the OOUTH morgue in Sagamu,” Odutola said.
In the meantime, our correspondent’s makes an attempt to acquire a response from the corporate concerning the incident have been unsuccessful, because the cell phone quantity listed on the corporate’s web site went unanswered on Sunday.
An analogous occupational hazard involving a 25-year-old building employee who fell from a storey constructing occurred at a web site in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State not too long ago.
The police said that the deceased fell from the constructing whereas eradicating lintel wooden on the development web site.