Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Thir­ty-four-year-old Garvin Mungroo was a skilled and ex­pe­ri­enced me­chan­ic.

In a trag­ic ac­ci­dent on Sun­day, he was crushed by the chas­sis of a dump truck he was fix­ing in Gas­par­il­lo.

His nephew Josh Al­bert, who was with him at the job site, said they were still try­ing to un­der­stand what hap­pened.

The ac­ci­dent oc­curred at 12.30 pm in an open area at Bull Fab­ri­ca­tors at Thomp­son Street in Gas­par­il­lo.

Al­bert said Mungroo and his oth­er un­cle were work­ing on the truck while he (Al­bert) was weld­ing near­by. He re­called that they were mount­ing a truck and his un­cle was un­der it slack­en­ing a bolt.

“Like the (back) dif (dif­fer­en­tial) roll for­ward and the chas­sis come down and squeeze him against the dif,” he ex­plained.

He said his oth­er un­cle used a fork­lift to lift the truck off of Mungroo, who was bleed­ing from his nose.

Ex­plain­ing that his un­cle was an ex­pe­ri­enced me­chan­ic, he said, “Is years my un­cle in this line of work, is not now he fix­ing truck. He is a per­son, he al­ways takes his time ... We does al­ways take we time be­cause we know the dan­ger and the haz­ard, the slight­est thing some­thing could hap­pen.”

He said his un­cle was not mar­ried and had no chil­dren.

Mungroo, who lived at Har­mo­ny Hall in Gas­par­il­lo, died around 1.45 pm on Sun­day at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Gas­par­il­lo po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.