Chhattisgarh: 14 killed, 19 injured in boiler blast at Vedanta power plant
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Fourteen persons were killed and 19 injured on Tuesday after superheated steam from a boiler tube blast rained on them at a power plant owned by Vedanta Limited in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district, The Indian Express reported.
The explosion is said to have taken place at about 2.30 pm in a steel tube carrying superheated steam from the boiler to the turbine at the power plant located in Singhitarai village, PTI reported.
An unidentified official told The Indian Express that after the tube burst, superheated steam with a temperature of about 600 degree Celsius fell on persons in the plant who were having their lunch.
“Some others who were walking in open spaces also got injured,” the official said.
Ajit Naskar, one among the several workers from West Bengal who were working at the plant, told reporters that they had been asked to paint the premises, The Indian Express reported.
“The incident happened around 2.30 pm when we were just starting our work post-lunch,” the newspaper quoted Naskar as saying. “Suddenly I heard a blast and there was smoke everywhere. We were at a height of 17 metres. I was in one corner so I hid inside a cupboard.”
He added that around 40 to 50 persons were doing the painting work at the time of the incident.
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