3 killed, 5 hurt in Nalagarh factory mishap

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 9

Three labourers were killed and five others sustained grievous injuries when molten scrap burst out of a furnace and fell on them while they were working at a steel company at Dhana village in Nalagarh subdivision around 11:30 pm yesterday.

According to the police, the injured were rushed to a private hospital at Dattowal from where three of them, whose condition was serious, were referred to the PGI, Chandigarh.

Mukhtiyar Singh, Ranjan and Chandreshwar, however, succumbed to their injuries after reaching the PGI. Five others were admitted to a local hospital. Three of them were not in a condition to give statement while two others were identified as Laddo Kumar from Bihar and Indresh Kumar from Uttar Pradesh, informed DSP Navdeep Singh.

The incident has exposed lack of safety measures adopted by the factory management. The police was probing absence of safety measures which the factory management had failed to take. Superintendent of Police, Rohit Malpani said three labourers had died and five others were injured. A probe was underway and an FIR is being registered under sections 331,287 and 304-A of the IPC against those responsible.