Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh): A five-member committee appointed by District Collector Vinay Chand, to probe into Monday night's fire incident at a pharmaceutical company in the JN Pharma City at Parawada here, submitted its preliminary report on Tuesday evening.
The committee inspected the spot and submitted its report to the district collector. According to the report, one person identified as K Srinivas Rao, a 40-year-old chemist hailing from Anakapalle in Visakhapatnam district died in the fire mishap at the unit of a pharma company named Ramky CETP solvents Private Limited.
The factory management has announced 35 lakh compensation and the State government has also announced 15 lakh from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund, according to a press note of the district authorities.
The committee is comprised up of Factories' Joint Chief Inspector Shiva Shankar Reddy, Pollution Control Board's environmental engineer Subhan, K Kishore from DRDO, District Fire Officer BVS Ram Prakash, and District Industries Centre General Manager A. Ramalingeswara Raju.
Earlier, on July 14, at least one worker was killed and another seriously injured after a major fire broke out following an explosion at a pharmaceutical unit near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
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Three other workers, who were also at the unit when the mishap occurred, escaped to safety with little injuries.
The incident triggered panic among the residents in the Paravada area as it came just over a couple of months after the styrene vapour leak in the LG Polymers plant in the region.
The incident occurred two weeks after a gas leak from a pharmaceutical unit in Pharma City, which claimed the lives of two people and affected four others.
The incident occurred at Sainor Life Sciences Private Limited on June 29.
This was the second industrial disaster to strike the port city in less than two months.
The gas leak incident came close on the heels of the May 7 disaster at LG Polymers plant at Venkatapuram.
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Styrene gas leak from the plan had claimed the lives of 15 people and affected over 500 in the surrounding villages
(With inputs from ANI)
