One worker was killed and two others sustained serious burn injuries following a major fire at the Indian Oil Corp's Panipat refinery in Haryana on Saturday night.
The 22-year-old victim, Mohan Lal, who hailed from Sonipat district and was engaged by a contractor of the refinery, was trapped in the vacuum distillation unit. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, the officials said.
Police said that the fire had started on Saturday night. Fire tenders were rushed to control the flames in the refinery belonging to the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL).
Mohan Lal and another worker, Deepak, received serious burn injuries as they were trapped in the unit. Their supervisor, MS Kherkar, was also injured in the incident, police said.
An internal probe has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the fire.
The Panipat refinery is IOCL's technically most advanced public sector unit and spread in an area of around 4,222 acres and consists of a refinery and petrochemical complex. The refinery caters to the demand of petroleum products in Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, and parts of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
Notably, this is not the first fire incident at the refinery in the recent past.
Two people had died on January 22, 2018, following a fire at the catalyst storage site of the refinery.
