At least 15 contract works of lectrosteel Steel limited (ESl) rushed to different hospital with complaint of suffocation and breathing problems following an accident at Bokaro on Thursday evening.
All contract workers were at routine maintenance work in the Oxygen Plant of ESl. Following a leakage of residual material (fine dust) from the Cold Box of the plant, people working there rushed to hospital with breathing problems, said Rohit Singh Public Relation Officer ESl.
The incident occurred at about 4.30 pm. All of them were kept on Oxygen as after inhaling the dust material they were in-needs of access oxygen, said Rohit.
“later ten of them were released just after 30-35 minutes while three of them who were severely injured sent to Bokaro General Hospital (BGH) for better treatment”, he added.
ESl a green field project at Siyaljori in Bokaro is 2.51 million tonne steel plant, designed and built by the Chinese steel major laiwu Steel Group limited (lSGl). This is the first green field project with the Chinese technology started it production in the end of 2011.
Its unit is based on Blast Furnace (BF)-Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF)-Billet Caster and Hot Rolling Route and will produce 1.2 MTPA of long steel products, comprising 0.5 MTPA of 5.5-12.0 mm diameter wire rods in coil form and 0.7 MTPA of reinforcement bars in straight lengths and bundled in the range of 8-32 mm and plain rounds up to 60 mm diameter.