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Oct 30, 2010 News
Three employees of Demerara Oxygen Company Limited (DOCOL) were injured in a freak accident at Company’s operations site at Eccles, East Bank Demerara. The injured were taken to a private hospital in the city.
After the incident the Guyana Fire Service was summoned and employees were cleared out of the buildings and the area closed. However, the fire service officials left after the situation was contained.
According to one employee, he heard an explosion in the Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) sector and later saw a man running out screaming. “All I see is this man skin white, white and he just running and hollering…is about three of them get burn.”
Another employee disclosed that he learnt that the men were in the section that deals with the refilling of gas cylinders when there was a mishap in the process causing an explosion.
“I think that any little spark can cause that if gas was escaping from a bottle…no phones are not allowed in there either. Not even vehicles that use gas should enter the compound; that is how serious it is,” one employee said.
This newspaper learnt Labour officials are investigating the incident.
DOCOL is owned 87 per cent by Neal and Massy Guyana Limited and 13 per cent by Industrial Gases Limited, an incorporated entity registered in Trinidad & Tobago.
DOCOL is a certified ISO 9001 company and is the primary producer and distributor of Industrial Gases (Oxygen and Acetylene) in Guyana. This company has the capacity of producing 2.2 million litres of Oxygen and 285,000 litres of Acetylene per day; while the DOCOL market commands in excess of 60 per cent of the total distribution.
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