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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Student killed doing project inside college
By Jovy S. Taghoy
CEBU CITY -- A third-year college student was electrocuted inside a public college on M.J. Cuenco Ave., Cebu City Wednesday morning.
Raymund Noval Pepito, 19, died before reaching the Cebu City Medical Center around 10 a.m., where he was rushed from the Cebu State College of Science and Technology.
Inspector Mario Monilar, chief of the Cebu City Homicide Section, said they will look into the possible lapses of the school’s administration in securing the equipment the students use for their classes.
The incident occurred at 9:50 a.m. while Pepito was attending his furniture and cabinet-making class, with Concordio Coliao as instructor.
Police Officer 3 Roger Nedamo, one of the responding homicide investigators, said the students were making a wooden chair.
Pepito and a classmate, Joselito Sortones, 21, were tasked to use portable grinders to polish the arm of the chair.
The students, Nedamo said, were working in one of the hallways in the main campus.
Pepito, however, complained that the grinder he was using was defective because it was no longer functioning.
Before removing the plug from the socket, Pepito reportedly checked the grinder. That’s when he was electrocuted.
Sortones immediately unplugged the device to save Pepito, who was already slumped on the floor.
Maribeth Cabanet, the school nurse, performed first aid on Pepito before he was taken to the city hospital.
Pepito, however, was declared dead on arrival.
Nedamo said they have yet to get an official statement from the school. No school official was available to issue one Wednesday.
He said a student was sent by the school to get a copy of the police report Wednesday afternoon.
But Inspector Monilar decided not to furnish the school a copy until Coliao, Cabanet, Sortones and another student-witness, Francisco Saquiz, show up for an investigation at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Homicide Section.
Monilar said an in-depth investigation is needed to determine if the school administration committed any lapses.
Monilar is planning to seek the assistance of the Visayan Electric Co. to determine where the lapses lie. (Sun.Star Cebu)
(October 13, 2005 issue)
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