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Family members of Sunshine Snacks worker Lionel Reis said they are taking it one day at a time, after he died as a result of a workplace accident on September 20.

Reis died after falling from a work basket while doing general warehouse assistance and cleaning-up operations at a finished goods warehouse of Associated Brands Industries Ltd (ABIL), the parent company of Sunshine Snacks, at Bhagoutie Trace, San Juan. Police reports say no harness was observed on his body when they arrived.

Newsday spoke to his common-law wife, Shennel Eccles, on September 22. She said she was on her way back home after identifying Reis’s body.