PM Browne Extends Condolences After Electrocution Incident on Booby Alley Project
SOURCE- ABS: Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for St John’s City West, Hon. Gaston Browne, has expressed his condolences to the family of the Chinese national killed in a tragic electrocution incident at the Booby Alley Housing project in Point Wednesday morning. Prime Minister Browne is also extending best wishes for a speedy recovery to the man who has been hospitalized.
Prime Minister Browne, who is overseas on official Government duties, has expressed his sadness at the incident.
The men were reportedly electrocuted after a scaffold they were erecting came into contact with electrical lines.
The Emergency Medical Services received the call at 8:31am and arrived on the scene within five minutes. The two men were stabilized and taken to the hospital, where one succumbed to his injuries within two hours, while the other continues to receive treatment.
Construction is ongoing at the site for 150 condominium-style dwellings for residents, as part of the Government’s social housing programme. The project is being funded with a grant from The People’s Republic of China.
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CARELESSNESSSSS. Didnt a similar incident happen just last year or the year before with a man cleaning glass?
The Apua is not into hotline work which was pushed a few years back by a lineman who worked abroad outside of the cultural mileau of APUA training, but was resisted by the supervisor staff and the electricity manager doesn’t have a clue, or else line hose cover up would have been the norm at any potential construction site near power lines, it happened when the Buckleys center was been constructed and now again. The APUA need to modernize, but the people that have been pushing for that has been castigated and scorned, you go to Puerto Rico or the USA and you will observer line hose cover up on the high voltage lines where there is proximity contact during the lineman working or construction site. I had wanted to see Apua go forward badly, because if it did it would have been my country, went all the way to northwest linesman college to certify for hotline work only to be fight down by my immediate superior, had I been given a chance these two lives would have been saved. But APUA present clique felt they had the superior logics, but one day people will come from abroad and shame our best supervisor and electricity manager as antiquated and not ahead of time in making utility service much more efficient and cost saving. And we have carilec which are really retired American linesman coming here to teach, but only at interductory levels, no advance teaching which I believe it comes from the exchange they have with the electricity manager and observing his capacity they can tell we are not ready for that level, because during live line work an engineer have to coordinate with the weather station officials for wind speed to calculate conductor transverse loads by size to know the rigging requirements to move a conductor to another position while energized. APUA has been harm in it’s future development by the friends and entitlement clique in the APUA system by not allowing progress and change, and it’s exacerbated by the present insecure electricity manager, who have nothing to impart like George Piggott and them guys , so he intimidate his subordinates for recognition. I had to leave that job with what talent or gift or expertise I have, my other colleague is still in here facing a fight because of creative differences. It’s going to take two more generation of linesman to pick up where I left off because if the present supervisory staff and engineers don’t have that exposure to change it won’t happen now, I hope their conscience is bothered over their mediocrity that has cause these two live to be taken.
So sad 😞
Deepest condolences to his family
Sad news. I read or hear about construction worker deaths in Florida almost weekly so I’m not surprised another work-related fatality has occurred here in Antigua. The construction sector is a dangerous one and even if workers follow health and safety guidelines, accidents can be fatal. A company as large as CCECC would have a thorough safety training program but if workers ignore or forget, bad things can happen.
I will also go as far as saying that there should be a hotline hold on any high voltage feeder lines during lineman working or near construction site even though covered up by line hose, so that it cannot attempt the reclose features, that’s what obtains in the international utility system, disabling the reclose relay, the foreman usually request that upon commencement of hotline work, because this is not the traditional method of requesting power suppression, there is a lot of policy and operational procedure that needs to be put in place by the APUA and I dare say the electricity manager who should stop his one manism dictatorship and allow the input of the other engineers to develop policy and operational procedure for the company and not leaving out the common linesmen who have the experience in the field of work. I take the time out now I am out of APUA to write and express myself on my beloved trade that I did for over three decades, but would have faced retribution when you speak in meetings and spited and kept down as though you are undermining someone to advocate for changes and advancement. May we look to a future of building capacity in this important industry for the benifit of the customers providing uninterrupted electrical service to our customers, and condolences to the Chinese and their families and the previous Guyanese that was also electrocuted at Buckleys during the Buckleys center construction .
Yes the company that cleans the deep water Harbour lost an employee in same fashion. Likewise the other employees is crippled and has returned.
The Chinese has their own rules , since they are a communist dictatorship government.
In the other hand the company that caused the death and leaving the other disable is an Antiguan contractor. Don’t matter if owner and the deceased and crippled are all from the Dominican Republic they should be compensated. The company is still working in Antigua and is still cleaning there . I am calling the government to look into the matter of the dead and crippled Dominican Republic employees that were working at the deep water harbor.