Sophia Gas bottle explosion: Mother of four succumbs to burn injuries
September 14, 2025
Four children are now motherless after 36-year-old Harriet George of 122 C Field South Sophia, Georgetown, succumbed to third-degree burns she sustained on September 04, 2025, when the regulator on a Massy Gas bottle popped off. George’s nephew, 13-year-old Jadon Jarad, sustained second-degree burns in the incident.
Both were rushed and admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital in critical condition on the day of the incident. However, while Jarad was discharged three days a few days after, George remained warded until her death at 12:15 Saturday, September 13, 2025.
Speaking with BIG Smith News Watch on Sunday morning, George’s sister Annette explained that her sister and nephew suffered physical pain while the family suffered emotional pain as a result of the ordeal and hospitalization of the two, and now the subsequent death of George.
She said the family was told from the outset the condition of the two and the chances that George had of surviving her injuries. Nonetheless, Annette believes that has the family had been given key details based on assessments from the doctors, they might have been able to seek overseas medical intervention.
“We were prepared to sell our house and car if we had to, just to ensure that she survived because she has four children who are now left behind. If they had told us certain things earlier at the hospital, we would have done what we needed to to ensure her chances of survival were increased,” Annette told BIG Smith News Watch.
Doctors have indicated to the family that Jadan, who has since been discharged, would have to wait nine months before his life can return to normalcy.
On the morning of the incident, George and her nephew got up and were preparing to open the family business when they began smelling gas, before they go could have done anything, there was a loud explosion which immediately blow of the roof of their shop and gave them a burning sensation on their skin as their clothes began to smoke and melt on their body without the presence of any fire flames.
When this publication reached out to Massy for a comment, the company refused to officially speak on the issue. However issued a press statement was issued later that day claiming that an investigation of the incident was done and that the explosion came from a faulty regulator.
