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Worker crushed by falling glass panels dies
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A man died from a ruptured heart after he was crushed by falling glass panels in a freak accident last Thursday. p> Mr Tan Lay Siew, 44, a general worker with a renovation company, had unloaded the panels onto a metal rack from a lorry outside his workplace in Geylang Bahru when the accident happened shortly after 1pm.
His foot got caught in the metal rack and he fell backwards before the seven glass panels - each measuring about 1.7m by 1.7m - started toppling onto his body.
Mr Tan was still conscious when his co-workers ran over to free him. He was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3.30pm.
His grief-stricken widow, Madam Lim Choy Fong, 41, was struggling to cope with her loss when she spoke to The Sunday Times yesterday. The couple have a 17-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son.
It was Madam Lim's daughter who rang to tell her that Mr Tan was in hospital.
Describing her husband as a devoted family man, Madam Lim said in Mandarin: 'I cannot believe that he had gone in such a manner. I never had a chance to say goodbye to him.'
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September 26th, 2004
Source: Straitstimes Asia |
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