A GUYANESE sailor was crushed to death on Saturday while loading a vessel at the Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) port in Claxton Bay.

Doodnauth Nateram, 44, of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, reportedly died at the San Fernando General Hospital at around 2:40 am from internal injuries.

Nateram, who was employed with the ANS Shipping Company, had come aboard the general cargo vessel which was loading a shipment of cement.

Police in Trinidad said around 2.40 am, an excavator operator, another Guyanese, Ravi Mahadeo Persad, 46, of Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara, was loading cement while Nateram stood along a railing aboard the vessel. It was while Persad was in the process of turning the excavator that Nateram was accidentally pinned to the railing.

He was taken to the hospital by a TCL ambulance but where despite efforts to resuscitate him, he died. His body is currently at the hospital mortuary and an autopsy is expected to be performed today, Tuesday.

The Guyana Chronicle has learnt that up to late yesterday, Monday, Nateram’s family had not been contacted by the police in Trinidad.

Meanwhile inquiries into the death, which has been so far classified as an accident, is continuing by both the Police and TCL, it is reported.