WORKER KILLED, 6 CRITICALLY INJUREDIN REACTOR PIPE BLAST AT FACTORY

 

 

ONE worker was killed and six others were seriously injured in a reactor pipe blast at a factory at Bhilgaon, near Kamptee, on Tuesday morning.Theincident took place at Ankit Pulps and Boards Private Limited, located on the busy K a mptee- N a gpur Road, around 10.30 am, when a nozzle pipe of a hot water reactor burst unexpectedly. The worker who lost his life in the incident has been identified as Sudhir Rameshwar Kalbande (42), a resident ofDattaNagar at Kanhan in Parseoni tehsil. He was among the seven workers operatingmachineryon the third floor of the factory when the accident occurred. According to police, the factory has been operating for many years and manufacturesproducts thatare used in pharmaceutical units.

 

During the process, water is used at a high temperature of 125 degrees celsius. The factory runs in three shifts and employsabout90workers.Board Directors of the company are Rajesh Mohanlal Agrawal and Anil Rameshwarlal Agrawal. On Monday, during the firstshift that began at 7 am, seven workers were working on a machine on the third floor. Suddenly, a manual nozzle pipe connected to a hot water reactorburst.Asaresult,boilingwater mixed with chemicals splashed directly onto the workers which caused severe burns.

 

The injured have been identified as: DineshTembhurne (60), a resident of Indora; Mangesh Raut (32), a resident of Hudkeshwar; Yunus Khan Mehboob Khan (38), a resident of Kamptee; Swapnadeep Pradeep Vaidya (46), a resident of Indora; Ashish Ramesh Wadkule (35), a resident of Kandri, Kanhan and Ganesh Ramdas Wankhede (55), a resident of Sundar Nagar, Bhandewadi. All injured workers were immediately rushed to a Hospital. Unfortunately, Sudhir Kalbande succumbed to his injuries around 1 pm during treatment. The other six workers arein critical condition, with Dinesh Tembhurne and Mangesh Raut being shifted to a private hospital in Nagpur for specialised care. TehsildarGaneshJagdale,DCP Zone 5 Niketan Kadam, ACP Vishal Kshirsagar, Senior Police Inspector Mahesh Andhale, PSI Jitendra Tiwari, and Bhilgaon Sarpanch Bhavana Phalke visited the site and later went to the hospital to check on the victims.