A 30-year-old man attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission is now dead after succumbing to injuries received when a tree fell on him. Dead is Ravel Dale La Rose of Moruca, North West District.
According to the police, last Thursday at approximately 2 pm, La Rose and six other men were in a camp at Unamco Road, Upper Berbice River, when high winds caused a tree to fall on the camp. La Rose was injured during the incident and later succumbed to these injuries. The other men escaped unharmed.
Ravel La Rose
One of the men, who was in the camp at the time, told this newspaper that the team was in the area doing gold exploration. He said that the group had set up camp at the location since February 3.
On the day of the incident, the man said that the group had finished working for the day and returned to the camp to eat and rest when the incident occurred.
The body of the dead man is currently at the Lyken Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination.
La Rose was a former national swimmer and a swimming coach.
This is truly sad and my heartfelt condolences go out to his family. I sincerely hope that steps will be taken to avoid this kind of thing in the future.
how can you avoid a tree from falling.
My condolences to the family. Its almost impossible to predict how a tree will behave in high winds unless there is some visible damage or rot .I had a similar experience in a German forest when a big strapping ,healthy tree came crashing down in a gust of win, narrowly missing a line of men queuing for dinner. What we did observe, howevever is that the ground was 95%sand,the tree had no main root, and those almost surface roots which extended outwards, did not have a strong enough grip to hold that tree stable in high winds.
So unlucky,my sympathy to the mourning family.
This is so sad, my condolences goes out to his family, working in the interior is very dangerous.