The Tribune

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS

Tribune Staff Reporter

lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

WATER & Sewerage Corporation consultant Loretta Butler-Turner said a freak accident that caused the death of a WSC employee last month would be comprehensively reviewed and the corporation has cooperated with the victim’s family.

Her comment came after East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson called for an inquiry into the death of Abaco resident and WSC area manager Tony Lamont Scriven, who was inspecting a water plant in Sweeting’s Cay with several other employees on September 30th when a water tank collapsed and fell on him.

Scriven left behind a wife and four children. His death shocked the Abaco community.

In the House of Assembly yesterday, Mr Thompson said he met and spoke with Scriven’s family and believes the circumstances of the death require an inquiry.

Mrs Butler-Turner noted the death was accidental and that the coroner determines the cause of death in such circumstances.

“Everyone would like to have answers as to what truly happened,” she said.

She could not confirm whether an investigation had officially started.

“We have done everything to cooperate with the wife, the mother, the father, the entire family, from transportation to accommodation to whatever because that man is a valued colleague,” she said yesterday.

“He is not someone we are not grieving over. If this were your loved one, you would want to have closure as well. So the Water and Sewerage considers him family, and the Water and Sewerage considers that whatever needs to be done to get full answers will be done.”

She said no work has continued on the site of the reverse osmosis plant since Scriven died. The tanks store 20,000 gallons of water on the cay.