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Worker Crushed To Death By Machinery At Steel Factory In Ogun
An employee at KAM Steel Integrated Company was killed by an engine roller after slipping on the machine at the factory in Ogun State.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that a tragic accident claimed the life of a 27-year-old employee, Yahaya Ibrahim, at KAM Steel Integrated Company’s factory on the Sagamu-Ogijo Expressway in Ogun State.
The incident happened at 4:50 am on Sunday when Ibrahim slipped and fell onto an engine roller he was operating.
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The Ogun State Police Command confirmed the incident, revealing that despite efforts by other staff members to save him, the roller crushed him to death.
The spokesperson for the command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident and stated that the deceased’s body had been taken to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital morgue.
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“Our men on traffic inspection visited the scene when we received a distress call. It was an industrial accident. The body has been deposited at the OOUTH morgue in Sagamu,” Odutola stated.
Meanwhile, attempts to obtain a response from the company regarding the incident were unsuccessful, as the mobile phone number listed on the company’s website went unanswered on Sunday.
A similar occupational hazard involving a 25-year-old construction worker who fell from a storey building at a construction site in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State.
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The police stated that the deceased fell from the building while removing lintel wood on the construction site.
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