A major fire broke out at Bokaro Steel Plant (BSl) on Saturday night. However, no injury or loss of life was reported in the incident, said an official.
“We were working in second shift and suddenly fire broke out in a transformer at Tandem Mill in Cold Rolling Mill (CRM-1)," said an eyewitness.
The blaze broke out in transformer after a technical fault. The transformer controls Stead -1 and Coiler and contains 60 thousand liters of oil, said an official. "After the stiff struggle by fire tenders, it could be controlled in several hours which created a huge loss. Right now it is quite difficult to access the actual loss but it may be in lakhs,” sources said.
“After the fire, production at Mill has been stopped. We have constituted a team to investigate the reasons behind the accident,” added the official.