A 45-year-old steel bender working on top of a two-storey building at Community 7, Tema, in Greater Accra in the Republic of Ghana, was electrocuted in the early hours of Friday, January 15, 2021.
The man, identified as Efo Newton, died on the spot while working with colleagues on the structure.
According to an eyewitness and a co-worker, Maxwell Koomson, they had been working on the building for days and went there today to continue.
He said they arrived very early to work, and at the site, the deceased climbed to bend the steels.
Few minutes later, Mr. Koomson said they felt an electric shock on the building.
Immediately, he said they rushed to where the deceased was working, only to find his lifeless body with his arms folded on top of the bending steels.
“We called personnel from the Electricity Company of Ghana and the Tema Community 8 Ghana Police Service to the scene, where the personnel of the ECG, after disconnecting power in the area, conveyed the lifeless body downstairs,” the eyewitness narrated.
Assemblyman for the Area, Kwesi Assumaning said the incident was brought to his attention around 7am and quickly rushed to the scene.
At the scene, he said he saw the lifeless body of the Efo Newton and called the police to scene.
The body of the deceased had since been deposited at the Tema General Hospital morgue pending autopsy.
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com
