Tragedy struck at Tata Steel on Friday morning when one of the company’s employees Devender Pal Singh, a senior operator, slipped into a red hot molten iron bucket at lD # 2 & Slab Caster inside the Tata Steel works, sources said.
The temperature of the melt steel bucket was 1716 degree Celsius and the victim got dissolved into the melted steel, described
the sources.
A resident of TS Colony Singh was 49 years old and is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
Singh’s body was reduced to ashes. Sources informed that the incident took place when the victim was on night shift duty in lD-2 department.
A communique issued by the company said: “Emergency response procedures have been activated. The company stands by the family of the deceased during this hour of grief”.
It may be recalled that on November 14, 2013, 11 employees and contract workers of Tata Steel sustained serious injuries following an explosion in the lD 2 gas holder inside its Jamshedpur Steel Works. One the injured was scrummed to his injuries.