A 40-year-old woman was on Thursday morning electrocuted at Plantation Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) whist operating a machine at her workplace.
Dead is Sherly Winter, a mother of one, who resided at Rams Cane Field Drive, Friendship, EBD.
Winter was an employee at Flexotech Inc.
Reports are that the woman was operating a machine at around 11:27hrs when her coworkers heard her screaming.
Upon rushing to the woman’s assistance, she was observed in a motionless state. She was taken to the Diamond Public Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
A postmortem examination gave her cause of death as electrocution.
The Ministry of Labour has already visited the worksite. Investigations are ongoing.
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