Daily Black Immigrant News
A worker in Berbice, Region Six, has now died after the tire he was changing on a skid steer exploded.
Dead is 17-year-old Urick Glen Henry of Evelyn Landing, Corentyne River.
The incident happened on Friday at a logging concession in Evening Creek, which is about 300 miles up the Corentyne River.
Reports are that on Friday, the teenager along with his father, 43-year-old Hemant Kumar Daonarine, were working at the logging concession owned by a businessman of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne.
Daonarine told investigators that at the time of the incident, he was about 40 meters away from his son when the incident occurred.
The man recalled that the teenager was inflating a Skidder tire using an air compressor from a motor truck when the tire exploded, sending him 15 meters into the air.
Henry is then said to have fallen to the ground and remained motionless.
Daonarine said his son received injuries all over his face, his right hand was broken and blood was pouring from his mouth.
Henry was taken to Skeldon Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police are investigating.
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