By Our Correspondent
JHARSUGUDA/ BHUBANESWAR: Panic spread after 7 workers of the Thakur Prasad Sao & Sons Private Limited (TPSL) steel plant at Lahandabuda under the Dhuruhadihi police station in Jharsuguda district were injured when an explosion in the factory took place on Thursday.
The mishap occurred in a blast furnace on the second floor of the plant at around 9.30 am. The 7 on-duty workers sustained burn injuries when hot liquid iron from the furnace fell on them.
The injured persons, identified as Rabi Shankar (40), Ananda Sahu (45), Ganesh Swain (30), Ranjit Singh (32), Sumant Majhi(24) and Sahdev Patel (30), were first rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH).
Since the DHH has no burn unit, they were shifted to the Rourkela Ispat General Hospital (IGH), informed Jharsuguda Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) Jagdish Chandra Barik. The conditions of two of the injured were stated to be critical.
Meanwhile, the Jharkhand’s Chaibasa headquarters firm has been under scanner after several activists demanded a CBI probe into the state of affairs of the Company in Odisha.
“The Company’s plant in Jharsuguda has been creating a lot of air and water pollution in Jharsuguda-Sambalpur Industrial belt. The Company has also violated many laws of Forest and Environment and Wildlife Protection Acts,” said an activist in Bhubaneswar. “We have urged the Directorate General of GST Intelligence, Bhubaneswar Zonal Unit to look into company’s GST issues,” he added.
Locals in Jharsuguda alleged that using illegal means and ways going “A CBI raid in Jharsuguda, Chaibasa will expose all Company’s illegal network,” he added. The studied silence of Naveen Patnaik led BJD Government in Odisha over illegal activities in and air-water pollution in Jharsuguda-Sambalpur region by Thakur Prasad Sao & Sons Private Limited (TPSL) steel plant at Lahandabuda under the Dhuruhadihi police station in Jharsuguda district.
Without wanting to be identified, a businessman associated with materials supply to the industries of Jharsuguda said to www.indianewsdiary.com that many steel and power industries including Thakur Prasad Sao & Sons Private Limited (TPSL) steel plant at Lahandabuda under the Dhuruhadihi police station in Jharsuguda district were collecting raw materials – such as iron ore and coal – illegally without paying taxes for a long time.
But the inflow of such illegally-obtained raw materials was checked all of a sudden with the state government acting tough on the violation and ensuring strict checking of ore-laden materials in the region.
