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29 March 2024

Worker bleeds to death after arm torn off in rock crusher in RAK

Radhakrishan, who died in a freak accident at a stone crushing plant in Ras Al Khaimah on Monday (SUPPLIED)

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By V M Sathish

Wednesday’s Onam festival will be very gloomy for hundreds of Indian employees at a major rock crushing plant in Ras Al Khaimah as a 43-year-old crusher operator died on Monday after his hand got trapped in the heavy stone crusher machine.

Radhakrishnan, a labourer at the Al Khail Stevin Rock Company’s plant, died a few hours after his arm was cut off from his body at the shoulder. The Keralite expatriate, who was getting ready to travel home for Onam, died due to profuse bleeding.

“He had packed his bags for travelling to Kerala for Onam.  At around 11 am his hand got trapped in the crusher machine and his entire arm from the shoulder was separated from his body. His friends, who rescued him from the machine, kept the cut-off hand in ice for more than an hour. It took more than an hour for the ambulance to arrive and rush him to hospital. He died due to continuous bleeding,” said a colleague who did not wish to be named.

Following the tragedy, Onam celebrations were cancelled in the company where nearly 4,000 people work. The stone crushing plant is located in the Al Dagdaga area of Ras Al Khaimah.

Two of Radhakrishnan’s colleagues fainted after seeing his hand cut off from his body. According to his colleagues, though accidents have happened earlier, this is the first fatal one.

Radhakrishnan, hailing from Cherthala in Kerala’s Alappuzha district, is survived by wife Jayashree and son Niranjan, a fifth- standard student.

Colonel Yaqoub Al Hadad, director of Al Dagdaga police station, was quoted in the media as saying that the worker died because of profuse bleeding. An investigation is on into the freak accident.  Stevin Rock Company is a leading stone crusher in the UAE.

According to medical experts, it is possible to rejoin a hand severed from the body through plastic surgery if it is done in time.

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