BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE Moorjani Construction Company’s employee who fell yesterday morning (Dec. 3) from a building under construction in Bird Rock died hours after at the Joseph N France General Hospital.
Reports reaching SKNVibes states that Elrick ‘Talah’ Prentice of Sebastian Street, Newtown died sometime after 4:00 p.m. yesterday while under treatment in the Intensive Care Unit.
The wife of the 55-year-old father of six, Bodecier ‘Lulu’ Prentice, told this media house that she received a telephone call at her place of employ shortly after he fell and was present at the hospital before the ambulance had arrived there.
“He was breathing but not conscious of what was going on. There was blood on his face, but I cannot say if it came from his mouth, nostrils or from a cut on his face. The doctor said there were no broken bones in his body and we would have to wait for the results of a post mortem to ascertain the cause of his death,” Bodecier said.
At approximately 11:00 a.m. yesterday, Prentice 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 told SKNVibes that Prentice 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 had been working with the construction company since July this year, and the building from which he fell is owned by RAMs Trading Company Limited, which SKNVibes learned will be used as a warehouse and will also comprise apartments.
