Chennai:
In
a tragic accident at a Metro Rail construction site near Pachaiyappas
College on the busy Poonamalle High Road here, a migrant labourer was
killed and 6 others were injured on Wednesday night.
The mishap occurred around 8.30 pm when the arm of a
crane that was holding 25 tonne steel rods snapped and fell, dragging a
worker in the process into the diaphgram pit (for building underground
metro station) and injuring six others.
The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital and
later shifted to the Government General Hospital. While Sindhu (30) died
on the spot, Sonilal (20), Imanullah (35), Jamal (20), Ravindran (23),
Sadif-al-aslam (23) and Ajai Mohan Singh (35) were being treated at the
GH.
Metro rail chief public relation officer S
Krishnamoorthy told reporters at the accident site that it took nearly
an hour to rescue the workers and shift them to hospital. Workers said
the toll could have been much higher as more than 100 workers were at
the site when the mishap happened.
“An inquiry is on to ascertain what caused the crane to snap. The work at the site was contracted to L & T and SUCG.”
Immediately after the accident, a fire tender and several ambulances rushed in and the site was cordoned off.
This is the first fatal mishap at a metro construction site.
A
minor mishap occurred on July 26 at Vadapalani when a huge iron shell
used to fill concrete to build a supportive arm crashed at Vadapalani.
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