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Fire at Bajaj Hindusthan’s Kinauni sugar mill kills two workers

Fire at Bajaj Hindusthan’s Kinauni sugar mill kills two workers

Two workers have died while one has been hospitalised with burn injuries in a fire which broke out in Hindusthan Sugar’s mill at Kinauni in on Saturday, the company said.

In a regulatory filing today, Hindusthan informed that the fire broke out in one of the storage tanks at its distillery division during loading of ethanol in containers.

The incident took place in the afternoon on May 26 and the fire could be fully extinguished in the evening next day with help of state fire department along with the 

“The fire has caused serious burn injuries to three workmen at the  All the three injured workmen were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. Two of the injured workmen succumbed to burn injuries and other one is being treated at the hospital,” the company said, adding that the company would provide necessary support to families of these workmen.

Hindusthan said it is investigating the matter with the help of and district administration.

“The fire completely damaged one out of ten storage tanks in the distillery division. The entire stock of industrial alcohol in this storage tank and three containers that were being loaded, aggregating to approx. 18 lakh litres have been destroyed,” the filing said.

As per its preliminary assessment, the company said this incident would not have any material bearing on the overall operations/performance.

Being off-season, there was no loss of sugar production at on account of this incident.

Bajaj Hindusthan is the country’s largest sugar firm with 14 mills in having cane crushing capacity of 1.36 lakh tonnes per day. It also manufactures ethanol.

 

Source: Business Standard – Published on: 28th May 2018