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Sowetan report that a pregnant shoe store employee died on Tuesday in a toilet after allegedly inhaling toxic fumes from a generator which was started in the adjacent store room after a power failure in the area .
Ivy Makoma Shohledi, 30, of Tembisa, died in a Studio 88 toilet at Tembisa Plaza in Ekurhuleni. Other staff members also inhaled the fumes, but were not as seriously affected. Her devastated father said: “I received a call from a relative who was at the scene. I walked into the store room and found a generator on the floor. She was also lying on the floor. They said she was in the toilet and she could not come out.” When Sowetan visited Studio 88 on Wednesday the generator was still in the store room next to the toilet. A security officer at the shopping complex said all stores operated generators outside of the premises because they were not allowed to be operated inside a store.
- Read an extended versionof this report by Pertunia Mafokwane at SA Labour News
- The original of this report is on page 8 of Sowetan of 8 June 2017
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