BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AN employee of Moorjani Construction Company this morning (Dec. 3) fell some 24 feet to the ground while working on a building under construction in Bird Rock.
Information reaching SKNVibes states that at approximately 11:00 a.m., Elrick Prentice of Sebastian Street, Newtown fell off the building after the handle of the bull float he was using got into contact with a nearby high-tension power line.
A bull float is a concrete finishing tool that smoothes fresh concrete surfaces. It has a long handle attached to a flat wood, aluminum or magnesium piece called a float.
On arrival at the scene, one of the construction workers, said, “He was on the scaffold bull floating and the handle touched a high-tension power line and he was shocked, which caused him to fall to the ground.”
Prentice, who has been working with the construction company since July this year, was transported to the Joseph N France General Hospital by a unit from the Emergency Medical Services. He was in a state of consciousness at the time of being transported.
This media house learned that the building under construction is owned by RAM’s Trading Limited and, upon completion, will be used as a warehouse and will also comprise apartments.
