MARGAO
A daily wage worker employed by the Margao Municipal Council to cut a huge tree outside the KTC bus stand on Wednesday morning sustained a fractured leg.
The labourer Manik Harijan (48), a resident of Navelim, is presently convalescing at the Hospicio hospital.
A group of Margao Municipal workers were drafted for tree cutting outside the KTC bus stand after the power department took a shutdown. The incident occurred when some labourers, including Harijan, were holding on to a branch which was being cut.
It is learnt that Harijan’s co-workers left the rope as a result of which he was left alone holding on and as a result he was flung on top and came crashing down in the process fracturing his leg.
General Secretary of the Goa Municipal Employees Association Anil Shirodkar told The Goan that the union will make a strong case for compensation to the injured worker, even as Chief Officer Johnson Fernandes said he will be certainly entitled for medical compensation under the rules in force.
