The Rising Day of the Neyveli lignite Corporation, 300 km from Chennai, on Tuesday turned out to be a day of disaster as a plant engineer was killed on the spot and four others were injured when a steam pipeline burst in the 600 MW thermal power station of the company. R Selvaraj, plant engineer died of burns while four employees suffered burns. All of them have been admitted to a hospital in Cehnnai.
Condition of one of the injured is serious, according to a company spokesman. “We do not know what happened. This is the first of its kind accident in the company’s history. It was on may 20, 1957, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dedicated the company to the nation,” said the spokesman.