A labourer died after he crashed down from a tower at an under construction cement plant in Nandini, police said here on Friday.
The incident took place when the labourer was working on a tower at the JK lakshmi cement plant in Nandini area of Bhilai at around 11 am, informed Chhavni City Superintendent of Police Narendra Sharma. According to police the victim was identified as Vipin Kumar Arya, hailing from Agra in Uttar Pradesh. Police informed that, Vipin lost his balance while working on around 85 meter tower and fell down. His co-workers immediately took him to a city hospital where he was declared brought dead. A case has been registered in this connection and the incident is being probed further, he said.
Notably the Nadani site of JK lakshmi cement at has been in dispute since a long. In the month of April this year a labourer died after falling into a pit in the construction site of the company. later the errant workers had blazed the several vehicles the deployed in construction work and had also vandalised the site.