Sherry Davis is thanking God for sparing her life after she was struck by a 20-foot beam which fell from the roof of the Super Foods Supermarket, Claxton Bay Junction, while she was working below. “I feel is a miracle I alive. I feel if it wasn’t for my colleague, who was telling me not to go to sleep, I wouldn’t ah make it,” said Davis as she grimaced in pain. Davis, 30, had emergency surgery on her left arm but may still never be able to use it again. She also suffered a large cut on the front of her head.
Recalling the incident from Ward 10 A of the San Fernando General Hospital, she said while she was in the meat section she was hearing noises on the roof. “We accustom hearing little stone and thing on the roof so I was not taking on the noise. “When the beam buss through the galvanize roof it come straight down on me. I raise my hand to breaks but it done hit me on my head and it hit my hand.”
Eyewitnesses said the beam was on scaffolding, which shifted, causing it to come crashing through the ceiling, plummeting about 25 feet to the ground. Davis said she could not feel her arm. “I started beating up on the ground. One of my co-workers she talk to me, she say, ‘Sherry, don’t go, you have two children, you have to study your children, don’t go to sleep.’ She keep me up.
“She did not want me to see my hand but I see it. The bone bust through my flesh.” She said it took a few people to lift the beam off her. Davis has been working in the supermarket for over a year. She said her husband, Roger Kennedy, had asked her to stay home that day because he felt something bad was going to happen but she did not listen. Kennedy said no one seemed to be taking the incident seriously.
“My wife could have died. I made a report to the police. They ain’t even call me or nothing. I sure Osha knows about this but they not doing anything. Please, someone do something,” he pleaded. Kennedy, a PH driver, said he had not been able to work since the incident because he had been busy tending to his wife.
He said doctors told them that in three months she may have to undergo further surgery but might still never regain full use of her arm. Doctors, he said, also told them that she might suffer from complications from her head injury in the future.
Kennedy said he had gone to an attorney to seek legal advice.
