TWENTY-four-year-old Chan Hunter, of Jawalla Village, in the Upper Mazaruni River, is now warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after being injured in a mining pit accident last Tuesday.Reports are that around 17:30hrs, Hunter, a gold miner, was working in a mining pit at Jawalla when a piece of dried branch fell from above the pit and struck him.
The force with which the tree limb landed on Hunter reportedly caused him to suffer a compound fracture in the left leg, causing several inches of bone to penetrate his flesh.
He is currently undergoing a traction process, which has rendered him immobile.
Hunter also continues to suffer excruciating pain caused by the injury to his hip and rib cage. An X-Ray has been ordered.
The injured man’s relatives recalled that there were others in the pit with him, but he was the only one injured.
The other miners who were in the pit managed to lift him out and took him to the Kamarang Hospital, some one-and-a-half miles away by boat.
There, he spent the night after being treated, but he was transferred to the Georgetown Hospital the following day by aircraft.