A 25 year old female employee of a biscuit manufacturing company in
Thika town was on Wednesday crashed to death by a machine she was
operating.
Teresia Nduku Kanini was cleaning the giant machine at a Biscuit
manufacturing company when the turbines whisked her and crashed her to
death.
Attempts by her colleagues to disengage the machines were futile and
they watched helplessly as she was crushed to death by the giant wheels
in the incident that happened at around midnight.
Colleagues who sought anonymity for fear of being victimized by the
management alleged that the management of Mjengo Limited company usually
locks up over 200 night shift workers in the factory to package and
load biscuits without any technical person to attend to the machines.
They further alleged that all the main doors are locked from outside
making it impossible for the workers to seek external help in case of an
emergency.
They said that it took a while for the management to respond to their
cry for help when the unfortunate incident happened and by the time the
director Raj Malde arrived accompanied by police officers the lady had
already died.
Area OCPD Paul Letting confirmed the incident and said that they were
liaising with the occupational Health and Safety Officers to verify
what caused the unfortunate incident.
The management which mainly comprises Asians and Whitemen at some
point threatened to take legal action against the media for using
backdoors to access their organization.
It took the intervention of the Company Director Raj Malde who was
called from his residence to calm the tempers of the members of the
fourth estate. He took the pressmen through the CCTV footage which
indicated the movement of the deceased until she met her death.
The footage depicted the young lady getting into a prohibited area to
pick some gunny bag when she was whisked by the giant machine which
crashed her to death.
The management of the Biscuit manufacturers has agreed to assist in
funeral arrangements of the unfortunate worker and will also compensate
her family for the untimely loss.
KNA