Engine roller kills KAM steel integrated company staff

A 27-year-old employee of KAM Steel Integrated Company, Yahaya Ibrahim, was killed by an engine roller after slipping on the machine at the company’s factory along the Sagamu-Ogijo Expressway in Ogun State.

According to Punch, the incident occurred on Sunday at 4:50 am when the deceased was operating the engine roller and suddenly fell onto the roller.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, stated that the deceased’s body had been taken to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital morgue.

“Our men on traffic inspection visited the scene when we received a distress call. It was an industrial accident. The body has been deposited at the OOUTH morgue in Sagamu,” Odutola stated.

Meanwhile, attempts to obtain official response from the company regarding the incident were unsuccessful, as the mobile phone number (Ogun) listed on the company’s website was switched off on Sunday.