The widow of a young father-of-three who died after a shift building Brisbane’s Cross River Rail has claimed his death “could have been prevented”. However, the authority delivering the mammoth infrastructure project maintains no findings have been made to back up claims by the family and a union that he died of heat stress.
The widow of a young father -of-three who died after a shift building Brisbane ’s Cross River Rail has claimed his death “could have been prevented”. However, the authority delivering the mammoth infrastructure project maintains no findings have been made to back up claims by the family and a union that he died of heat stress. Subcontractor Daniel Sa’u, 29, died on December 28 on the way home from the Salisbury construction site .
“My darling Daniel didn’t come home safely from work,” his wife Jeraldine told a CFMEU rally on Thursday. “He is my soulmate, a wonderful father to our beautiful three girls, a loving son, a brother and uncle. “He is so loved and missed by his family and friends. “He was a hard worker wanting to provide for his family to set up the future of his children.” She said the extended family has suffered unimaginable “grief and loss” but “what has made it more difficult” is “that it could have been prevented”. She said she was speaking out to “prevent this from happening to another family”. “What happened to him is not right,” she sai
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