3 labourers die while cleaning tank at animal feed factory

Tribune News Service

Moga, April 6

Three labourers lost their lives while they were cleaning a tank in an animal feed factory at Moga’s Kot-ise-Khan town on Monday.

The deceased have been identified as Surjit Singh, a resident of Nasirpur Jania village, and Jaspreet Singha and his brother Satnam Singh, residents of Khosa Kotla village.

The tank was made in a 10-feet-deep pit which was used to prepare a mixture of various animal feed materials. In the preparation of the mixture, a ‘poisonous’ gas was produced.

The labourers were asked to clean the tank, however, the gas wasn’t released from the tank, which led to their death.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the incident took place in Ekam Feed factory, owned by Sanjeev Kumar Garg, a local businessman.

It has come to light that Surjit Singh first went inside the tank and did not come back. Subsequently, Jaspreet went inside the tank to look for him, but never returned. Later, his brother Satnam Singh went inside to pull them out of the tank, but he also slipped into it.

Moga SP (H) Harinder Pal Singh Parmar, Dharamkot sub-division DSP Yadwider Singh Bajwa, and Dharamkot sub-division SHO Jaswinder Singh reached the spot immediately after they came to know about the incident.

With the help of locals and other workers of the factory, the police pulled out the bodies from the tank and sent them to the district hospital for postmortem. Further investigation was underway.