Three laborers were injured in a blast that occurred in a steel factory located on outskirts of Raipur’s Urla on Sunday morning, police informed.
“The blast took place at around 8 a.m. at Venkateshwar Ispat in industrial area Urla. The injured were rushed to a private hospital in Raipur,” City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Urla Abhishek Maheshwari said.
The injured workers have sustained burn injuries in hand and legs. Their condition is stable to be critical but completely out of danger, police and doctors stated.
“Though we have launched investigation into the case, but it will be premature to make any comment as of now about the exact cause of explosion,” the CSP asserted while replying to the query about causes that led to explosion.
Meanwhile, according to sources blast occurred due to short circuit or malfunction in one of the panels controlling machinery in the plant.