Three Workers Suffocate To Death In Coffee Machine
Fear gripped residents of Zigoti, Mityana road after a coffee processing machine called the ‘Elevator Shaft’ at Zigoti Coffee Factory Works Limited crashed into three workers at once.
The deceased have been identified as 21-year-old Sseguya Collins, 19-year-old Kimbugwe James and 25-year-old Mwigala Bashir, all casual labourers at the factory.
According to Wamala Region police spokesperson Kawala Racheal, police received a report on Friday at around 12 noon from the factory manager Mutagwa Musa, telling him about the unfortunate events.
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Police swiftly visited the scene and retrieve the bodies of the deceased and according to the police report,
The machine was working perfectly until it got a mechanical fault and production was halted because it was switched off. To try and fix it, kimbugwe is said to have gone down into the Elevator Shaft to find out the problem and fix it. It is said that his workmates waited for him to come up again, in vain. Sseguya is said to have followed and when he also did not come back, Mwigala went down too.
This was when the manager started suspecting that something was wrong and he called the police who brought out the bodies and reported that they died of lack of oxygen (suffocation) while inside the machine.
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One of the workers at the factory revealed that this was not the first time the machine was breaking down and required someone going down to fix it.
“I was ready to go down and see what was wrong with my friends but my other fellow workers stopped me. If they had not, I would have died too,” he said.
Kawala revealed that no arrests were made under this case file because investigations revealed that it was an accident.
Kimbugwe and Sseguya were laid to rest at their ancestral homes in Kalisizo, Kyotera District while Mwigala was buried in Kamuli district.
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