2013-08-19
Monte Sonnenberg
Simcoe Reformer
LANGTON - A Jamaican farm worker who was seriously injured in a freak accident last week is expected to make a full recovery.
The 48-year-old man was taken by air ambulance to the Health Sciences Centre in Hamilton Friday morning with life-threatening injuries. Norfolk OPP reported the man suffered a serious injury when a saw he was working with malfunctioned.
The Jamaican Liaison Office in Toronto identified the injured man as Rudolph Sulph of Trelawny Parish.
“We were there to see him yesterday (Sunday),” Larkland Stone, head of the Jamaican office in Toronto, said Monday morning. “He was stable and the prognosis is good. He is unable to speak because he has a breathing tube. But he was able to nod when we spoke to him. He has been removed from the intensive care unit to the recovery room.”
There have been reports that the worker was sharpening a saw on a grinder when a piece of the blade flew up and caught him in the throat. Stone says there were no eyewitnesses to the incident, but that his office has heard a similar account.
“I can only report what I’ve heard,” Stone said. “And it is similar to what you have said.”
The incident occurred on a tobacco farm on North Walsingham Concession Road 8.
The Ministry of Labour is investigating the incident.
Monte Sonnenberg
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