labour and Employees’ State Insurance Minister Prafulla Mallick on Sunday said action would be taken against the contractor who had hired the five labourers who died after a tractor in which they along with six others were travelling overturned at Gumulei in Sambalpur district on Saturday evening.
Six other labourers were also injured in the mishap.
The Minister told reporters that the families of the dead and the injured will be eligible for compensation if they were duly registered.
A tractor carrying 11 labourers overturned on the Old Ranchi Road at Gumulei under the Katarbaga police limits when the driver lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a bend.
Five labourers died on the spot while six others who sustained injuries were admitted to the hospital. The condition of one of them remained critical, reports said. The others injured are said to be in stable conditions, informed hospital authorities.