Four employees of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP ) and four contractual workers suffered burn injuries in a mishap that took place in Blast Furnace area on Wednesday.
Blast Furnace-4 was under scheduled maintenance from the morning hours of April 19, 2017. Maintenance work was being carried out by the Plant’s Pipeline Erection & Maintenance (PlEM) and Coal Dust Injection (CDI) groups around the Cast House area of the blast furnace. During the maintenance work, a sudden blast took place in one of the tuyers of the furnace, a BSP statement issued here informed.
Flame along with coke particles came out through the tuyer causing burn injuries to persons working in that area.
All the injured persons were immediately taken to the Plant’s Main Medical Post -1 by BSP ambulance and thereafter shifted & admitted in Burn Unit of JlN Hospital & Research Centre, Sector-9, where they are currently undergoing treatment by a team of specialists, it informed
The employees who have sustained burn injuries include - Rajeev Kumar, Technician, Ashwani Kumar Baghel, Sr.Tech, Abraham Rajeev Koshy, Technician – all working in Blast Furnaces, and Kamlesh Kumar, Master Techn., PlEM. The contractual workers include Suresh Kumar Verma, Ishwar Prasad Verma, lekhram Verma and Changur Prasad.
Meanwhile, Durg District Superintendent of Police Amresh Kumar Mishra said that eight BSP employees were injured in the blast . Out of eight, two are critically injured while six of them are stable who are admitted at Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital & Research Centre in Sector-9.