As many as 13 labourers were injured when a scaffolding from a boiler fell over them during maintenance work at a unit of a private thermal power plant in Sonbhadra district in the early hours of Sunday.
The incident took place around 2 am during maintenance work in one of the power generating units at the Lanco Anpara Power Limited.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took cognisance of the incident and directed the local administration to provide proper treatment to the injured. He also directed Additional Chief Secretary (Energy) Alok Sinha to investigate the incident and take effective action.
According to Lanco thermal plant manager SK Dwivedi, on March 22, work at the plant was stalled due to maintenance being carried out by trained contractual workers.
"A work was going on at 600 MW unit Number 2 of the Lanco project on Saturday night when a 36-metre-high scaffolding was being installed. The scaffolding collapsed around 2.45 am and it stuck at a height of 20 metres. The labourers working on it were injured," he said.
"Thirteen contractual labourers of two companies were injured in this incident. Out of the 13 labourers, eight were discharged from the project's community health centre after first aid. The five seriously injured labourers, including Dharamjeet 25, Shivam 20, Vivek 34, Sandeep Kumar 25 and Shiv Kumar 27, were referred to the Nehru Hospital, Jayant for further treatment," he said, adding that the condition of the injured labourers was stable and they were out of danger.
The officer also said that the compound was clear and no labour was trapped inside the scaffolding.
District Magistrate of Sonbhadra, Abhishek Singh, has ordered a probe into the incident by an ADM rank officer.