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Shipyard worker dies after iron post he was unloading falls on leg
View(s):A worker at a Russian ship docked here died when the iron posts he was unloading fell on his leg on Wednesday, a Coroner’s Courts was told. The victim, 46-year-old Udaya Priyananda de Silva, father of three from Suwashakthi Place in Piliyandala, was working around 3.45 in the morning when the accident occured.
Giving evidence before Colombo’s Inquirer into Sudden Deaths M. Ashroff Rumi the victim’s son 28-year-old Ramesh Dananjaya said his father had been working at the ship yard for two years on contract. At the time of the incident he was helping unload 20 ft long iron poles from the ship.
“My uncle also worked there. He called me and said that my father met with an accident during work,” Mr. Dananjaya said. He added that his father was rushed to the National Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Mr. Rumi concluded that the death was due to failure of kidneys resulting from injuries sustained in the lower part of the body.