A boiler blast on Wednesday at lignite miner and electricity generator NLC India’s plant in the southern Tamil Nadu state has killed six people, the company said, the second deadly accident at the plant in two months.
“Six workmen belonging to a contractor succumbed to injuries on the spot,” state-run NLC, which employs more than 12,000 people, said in a statement.
“While it was under shut down and maintenance activities continued, a fire broke out in the boiler area subsequent to an explosion,” NLC said.
An accident at the same power station on May 7 killed five people and injured three.
More than three people die and over 46 are injured each day in industrial accidents in India, according to government data for the three years ending 2016.
The explosion on Wednesday also injured 17 people, sixteen of whom were sent to a private hospital in the state capital of Chennai for treatment, while the other is being treated at a local hospital in Neyveli, the statement read.
NLC said all four operational 210 MW units of TPS-II had been ordered to shut down for an immediate safety audit and the unit head of the plant had been suspended pending an enquiry.
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