GURGAON: Three workers died while working in a chemical tank without protective gear at an automotive components plant in Gurgaon and the company's management has been booked for negligence.
The men were working inside a tank containing poisonous chemicals and gases at Sandhar Technologies' unit in Dhumaspur, near Bhondsi on November 11 morning.
They lost consciousness and were pulled out by other employees and were taken to hospital, where doctors declared them dead.
The deceased were identified as Naresh Yadav (56), a welder who had worked at the plant since 2021 and lived in Badshahpur, Anil Jha (46) of Nawada, and Mohammad Arif (21) of Muzaffarpur districts in Bihar.
The FIR at Bhondsi police station was registered on a written complaint from Yadav's son, who alleged that the maintenance head and plant head had ordered the three into the tank with no safety equipment provided.
It has been filed under Sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Post-mortem examinations for the exact cause of death are being conducted.
Meanwhile, confined-space deaths have recurred across the NCR in the recent years where two sanitation workers died inhaling fumes while cleaning a sewer in Nuh in April 2026, and two workers aged 36 and 45 died of asphyxiation in a 5-to-6-5-to-6-feet-deep tank in Gurgaon in 2023.
(With inputs from media reports)