Four persons sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at the Angul unit of the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) on Tuesday.
A flashover in high-voltage panel board of the plant’s Smelter Casthouse-B led to the fire breaking out at about 10 in the morning.
Mithun Nath, a contractual worker of Patanasahi village, two students, Bisweswar Samal and Rajanikant Parida undergoing apprenticeship training and a woman worker of the plant, Rinkina Sahoo sustained injuries in the mishap.
The victims were rushed to the local Nalco hospital and later referred to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. The conditions of the four were stated to be stable.