At least three employees of SAIL’s flagship unit Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) were injured on Wednesday and rushed to plant’s premier hospital with severe burn injuries.
The BSP management has downplayed the incident but added that injured staffers had been well taken care of by a team of doctors.
“Today at about 11.20 am, in Sub-Station 15-A Electrical Supply Feeder was being prepared for the new hydraulic mudgun of Blast Furnace No. 7. While putting the feeder in service position, a flashover occurred resulting in three persons getting burn injuries,’’ a BSP statement informed.
The statement further claimed, Rs Rs the employees, Pratap Singh Dhruw (45) Junior Officer with 45%, Devendra Kumar Sahu (30), Trainee, HRDC with 30% and Manoj Kumar Patel (54) Sr Technician with 30% burn injuries have been admitted in the burn unit of JLN Hospital & RC,’’.
The BSP which is located in Durg district, some 30 km from state capital Raipur, has a track record of industrial accidents.
In a latest of such incidents, 12 employees of the BSP were charred to death in October last year when a massive fire broke out at a gas pipeline in the Coke Oven Battery Complex No. 11 during a scheduled regular maintenance.
The incident had prompted the central government to suspend three senior officials while the Chief Executive Officer of the plant, M Ravi, was ‘divested of his duties’.