labourer, 37, wakes up to urinate, falls to death from open lift shaft
MUMBAI, Sept. 12 -- A 37-year-old labourer died after suffering multiple brain and chest fractures in a fall from an open lift shaft on the sixth floor of an under-construction residential building in Matunga in the early hours of Thursday. According to the police, the victim had come to the site to meet a relative and was sleeping on the sixth floor. The incident occurred when he woke up to urinate and accidentally fell through the unguarded shaft.
The incident took place at the Trimukh Shantikunj under-construction site on Balkrishna Sule Marg, Wadala. The building is being developed by Tridhaatu Renovators Private Limited, which has awarded the construction contract to M/s Task Infra Projects LLP. KV Nair has been given the contract to supply labour for the project.
The Matunga police identified the deceased as Sanjay Minj, 37, who was visiting his maternal nephew, Prakash Bakla, a fitter working at the site. "While the contractor has erected tin sheds on the ground floor for the labourers, some of them, including the complainant, stay on the sixth floor," the officer said.
On September 9, Minj had dinner and went to sleep on the sixth floor. At around 1am on Thursday, the occupants were alerted by a person on the ground floor that someone had fallen. Minj was rushed to hospital where he was declared dead....
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