{"id":283983,"date":"2018-03-13T18:27:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283983"},"modified":"2018-03-13T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:44:01","slug":"young-etchmiadzin-man-electrocuted-at-work-family-afraid-to-reveal-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/03\/13\/young-etchmiadzin-man-electrocuted-at-work-family-afraid-to-reveal-employer.html","title":{"rendered":"Young Etchmiadzin Man Electrocuted at Work; Family Afraid to Reveal Employer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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22-year-old resident of the Armenian city of Etchmiadzin Murad Ghazaryan was electrocuted while on the job in a greenhouse. The incident occurred in June, 2017; the young man has since been bedridden. The family are afraid to file a court complaint or reveal the employer since the latter has a close relative who works as a high-ranking official. Ghazaryan\u2019s mother, Anush Sukiasyan, is convinced that \u201cit would be meaningless to go to court anyway: we\u2019ll never be able to achieve justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murad Ghazaryan, a sexton at the St. Gayane Church in Etchmiadzin, used to work as a handyman in one of the city\u2019s greenhouses. On June 30, 2017, according to the mother, he was told by his superiors to climb to the room and fasten the wind damaged metal roofing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did not however warn my son that there was a 10,000 volt wire passing through the roof. When trying to climb down the room, he fell into a high-voltage electromagnetic field and suffered an electric shock, which \u00a0passed through the whole body and came out through his feet, tearing them apart,\u201d Sukiasyan said.<\/p>\n

Ghazaryan has since undergone three surgeries; he has been suffering from recurring headaches and seizures: \u201cHis feet would not stop bleeding\u2026 He has undergone an open-head surgery, the skin on his leg has been removed\u2026 There\u2019s still an electric current in his body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghazaryan\u2019s employer had initially assured the family that he would pay for the young man\u2019s treatment and do everything in his power to help him recover. \u201cHe gave us 80 000 drams over the following few months; however, we haven\u2019t received anything from him in the past two months. We tried calling him, but the number is unreachable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murad has been assessed with a second-degree disability; the family are currently trying to raise money to continue his treatment in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murad Ghazaryan, a sexton at the St. Gayane Church in Etchmiadzin, used to work as a handyman in one of the city\u2019s greenhouses. On June 30, 2017, according to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66056,66047,65979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}