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A 49-year-old construction worker was killed in a tragic accident at a job site in Felicity on Saturday morning.

Police said Jamiel Jamaldin, of Ashraff Road, Charlieville, was working on a ladder at an unfinished structure along Abidh Road around 9 a.m. when the ladder slipped. He fell and was impaled on a piece of steel on the side of the site.

Officers responding found Jamaldin in a kneeling position. Fire officers from the Chaguanas Fire Station assisted at the scene, which was later processed by crime scene investigators.