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Christie to probe Barbican worker deaths
Takes issue with NWC over contractors
By ALICIA DUNKLEY, Observer senior reporter, dunkley@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, November 18, 2010
CONTRACTOR General Greg Christie is to release a report into the fatal accident involving two workers contracted to the National Water Commission last week.
The workers were killed when mounds of dirt from a trench they were working in collapsed, trapping them beneath.
The men — 27-year-old Orlando Bennett and Kirk 'Corner Stone' Vernon, both of Barbican addresses — were contracted to lay sewer pipes.
A third worker who rushed to the scene in an attempt to rescue the men, was injured and had to be hospitalised.
Christie, speaking at a parliamentary committee meeting this morning, said his office had issues with the particular contractor used by the NWC.
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