WSC consultant Butler-Turner says freak accident will be ‘comprehensively reviewed’

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS

Tribune Staff Reporter

lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

WATER & Sewerage Corporation consultant Loretta Butler-Turner said a freak accident that caused the death of a WSC employee last month would be comprehensively reviewed and the corporation has cooperated with the victim’s family.

Her comment came after East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson called for an inquiry into the death of Abaco resident and WSC area manager Tony Lamont Scriven, who was inspecting a water plant in Sweeting’s Cay with several other employees on September 30th when a water tank collapsed and fell on him.

Scriven left behind a wife and four children. His death shocked the Abaco community.

In the House of Assembly yesterday, Mr Thompson said he met and spoke with Scriven’s family and believes the circumstances of the death require an inquiry.

Mrs Butler-Turner noted the death was accidental and that the coroner determines the cause of death in such circumstances.

“Everyone would like to have answers as to what truly happened,” she said.

She could not confirm whether an investigation had officially started.

“We have done everything to cooperate with the wife, the mother, the father, the entire family, from transportation to accommodation to whatever because that man is a valued colleague,” she said yesterday.

“He is not someone we are not grieving over. If this were your loved one, you would want to have closure as well. So the Water and Sewerage considers him family, and the Water and Sewerage considers that whatever needs to be done to get full answers will be done.”

She said no work has continued on the site of the reverse osmosis plant since Scriven died. The tanks store 20,000 gallons of water on the cay.

Comments

bahamianson says...

Wait, what? How did she become a consultant? Is she qualified? Someone please enlighten me? Boy, once you get in politics, you straight.

Posted 26 October 2023, 7:06 p.m. Suggest removal

themessenger says...

She's certainly qualified to consult where the dead are concerned, RO systems, pumps, storage tanks, foundations etc ??? H'mmm..............

Posted 27 October 2023, 11:25 a.m. Suggest removal

The_Oracle says...

Old concrete collapsed? New concrete was subpar? Was the tank overfilled?
Were engineers involved?
Can't bring him back but perhaps others may be spared......Government incompetence.

Posted 26 October 2023, 7:21 p.m. Suggest removal

Dawes says...

WE don't do health and safety here. We accept that every year there will be a couple of deaths and many serious injuries on building sites. IF we wanted to reduce these we would enforce health and safety laws. I shouldn't see people 5 floors up on a roof with no safety harness, or people wearing no hard helmets. When was the last time someone inspected buildings to say they were safe? . Until that changes tragic situations such as these will continue.

Posted 27 October 2023, 9:14 a.m. Suggest removal

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