{"id":2068,"date":"2010-09-15T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:07:20","slug":"scrap-metal-scavanger-killed-in-freeport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/scrap-metal-scavanger-killed-in-freeport","title":{"rendered":"Scrap Metal Scavanger Killed in Freeport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2072\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"steel-cutter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steel-cutter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steel-cutter.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steel-cutter-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A man, scavenging for scrap metal near the old  Bahamas Cement property, was killed yesterday after the  structure he was working on collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred early Monday morning in the area of the old  Bahamas Cement property while &#8220;T-Boy,&#8221; as the deceased man is called, and co-workers were retrieving scrap metal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Acting Police Press Liaison Assistant Superintendent  Hector Delva, police received the call shortly after 9:00 a.m. and went  to the scene at an abandoned building located on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Four residents of Eight Mile Rock were in the area trying to extract  scrap metal when the metal structure fell on one of the men, said ASP  Delva.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He got hurt badly. The doctor was called from the Eight Mile Rock Clinic and pronounced him dead on the scene,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we are going to classify it as an accidental death, but we are going to continue with investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man, scavenging for scrap metal near the old Bahamas Cement property, was killed yesterday after the structure he was working on collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}