A CARICOM Rice Mills Limited labourer, Colin Dave McFarlane, 41, died at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) last Saturday after falling from a paddy storage tank four days before.

He had suffered the fall at his Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast workplace about 01:30 h Tuesday morning after being instructed to climb and make some adjustments to a chute 20 feet high.

Reports said McFarlane slipped and fell to the concrete floor in the factory, injuring his back, head and face.

He was rushed to Suddie Hospital and admitted but later transferred to GPH and succumbed a few days after losing his mother, for whom he was still grieving.

Police and the Ministry of Labour are investigating the death of the unmarried man following the industrial accident.