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 On-line 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 immediately slipped and fell onto the curler within the early hours of Sunday.
PUNCH On-line gathered that efforts by different employees members to rescue the sufferer have been unsuccessful, because the curler reportedly crushed him to dying.
The spokesperson for the command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident and acknowledged that the deceased’s physique had been taken to the Olabisi Onabanjo College Instructing Hospital morgue.
“Our males on site visitors inspection visited the scene once we acquired a misery name. It was an industrial accident. The physique has been deposited on the OOUTH morgue in Sagamu,” Odutola acknowledged.
In the meantime, our correspondent’s makes an attempt to acquire a response from the corporate relating to the incident have been unsuccessful, because the cell phone quantity listed on the corporate’s web site went unanswered on Sunday.
PUNCH On-line reported an identical occupational hazard involving a 25-year-old development employee who fell from a storey constructing at a development website in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State.
The police acknowledged that the deceased fell from the constructing whereas eradicating lintel wooden on the development website.
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