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SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE -
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
MEDIA RELEASE
Date: 23 June 2005
Embargo: Immediate Release
Issued By: Captain van Vuuren
CONSTRUCTION WORKER DIES AFTER
SAND WALL COLLAPSE
A thirty nine year old man from Johannesburg, Fiede
Chivambo, died yesterday,2005-06-23 at 16:00, while busy digging a
foundation for an elevator. The man a construction worker was in the whole
that had been dug for the elevator foundation at a guesthouse at St Lucia,
when the sand wall collapsed and he subsequently got stuck under the sand.
His colleagues tried to rescue him as soon as possible but he had already
suffocated. The Department of Labour was contacted to investigate the site
and police at Mtubatuba have opened an Inquest docket which will be
investigated.
more information contact:
Tienkie van Vuuren
0824998347

The Building site where the fatal accident happened
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