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.
