Mumbai, Sep 12 (PTI) Three workers were killed and as many injured after a storage tank containing methanol exploded at a factory in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Thursday, police said.
A case of `culpable homicide not amounting to murder’ was registered in connection with the blast late in the evening, said an official.
The incident took place at 11.15 am at Sadhana Nitro Chem Limited in Dhatav MIDC in Roha town, around 110 km from Mumbai, Raigad Superintendent of Police Somnath Gharge said.
“The blast occurred in the storage tank of the chemical plant,” he said.
Three persons, who had come from Uttar Pradesh for fabrication at the chemical plant, died in the blast, another official said.
They were doing welding work when the storage tank, containing highly flammable methanol, blew up due to a spark.
Basuki Yadav (45), Dineshkumar Kharbarram (25) and Sanjeevkumar Yadav (21) died in the explosion, the official said.
Three more workers who were near the scene sustained burns, he said.
The injured persons were initially taken to the state-run hospital in Roha before being shifted to the National Burns Centre at Airoli in Navi Mumbai.
After being alerted, the fire brigade and local police personnel rushed to the spot and doused, within half an hour, the fire that broke out after the blast, he said.
Bodies of the three deceased men were sent for autopsies, the official said, adding that the search and firefighting operation was underway at the factory.
Meanwhile, a First Information Report was registered late in the evening against Mohan Lal, owner of M K Fabricator and some others under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 105 (culpable homicide) and 125 (B) (rash or negligent act endangering life or safety of others), said an official release of Alibaug police.
No arrest has been made yet, it added. PTI DC VT NP NR KRK
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