Mishap at Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha claims lifetime of contract employee

By Express News Service

ROURKELA: Another mishap contained in the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) of SAIL claimed the lifetime of a younger contract employee on Monday morning.

Sources mentioned the employee Ganasira Mundary (22) was trapped useless within the working slag disposal belt of the Blast Furnace (BF)-1.

Mundary was working for contract agency TD Construction and was discovered caught within the slag disposal belt of BF-1 at about 8.15 am and was rushed to the Occupational Health Service Centre of RSP. He was later shifted to the RSP-run Ispat General Hospital the place he was declared introduced useless.

The RSP administration was fast to type a high-level committee for inquiry. RSP Director In-Charge Atanu Bhowmick expressed deep anguish over the premature demise of the contract employee and warranted of all potential assist to the bereaved household.

Sources knowledgeable the mishap occurred when slag particles acquired jammed within the working conveyer belt and Mundary was clearing the slag for clean circulation.

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They mentioned the belt was working on the waist peak of Mundari and one way or the other he was pulled by the working belt resulting in his loss of life.

President of the BMS-affiliated Rourkela Ispat Karkhana Karmachari Sangh (RIKKS) HS Bal attributed the mishap to lack of security adherence on the worksite, including there was no security fencing alongside the working belt.

He mentioned the BF-1 division’s claims that three different staff have been on the website appear questionable as had there been some other current on the spot the sufferer wouldn’t have died. He reiterated strict security adherence inside RSP.

Earlier, on January 30 a contract employee Amar Panda (42) had died and one other contract employee escaped with minor harm after a heavy iron security seal of a gasoline tank acquired dislocated to entice Panda useless. They have been engaged in a housekeeping job on the Captive Power Plant (CPP) -1.

On January 06, 2021, 4 contractor staff died of publicity to toxic gasoline. They have been engaged in a upkeep job on the Site A of the Coal Chemical Department after they acquired uncovered to entrapped CO gasoline whereas opening the flange bolts of the CO gasoline pipeline hooked up to the Gas Mixing Tank.

The deadly mishap had led to the suspension of three RSP executives and a sequence of inquiries by SAIL and state authorities and the intervention of the National Green Tribunal.