Pune chemical unit fire: report says flagrant violation of safety norms, labour laws
The Hindu
Team, organised by the Trade Union Action Committee, comes out with the report
A fact-finding team, probing the horrific Pune chemical factory blaze last month in which 17 workers, most of them women, were killed, has found that the factory owners flagrantly violated safety and labour laws and that the authorities from the State Industrial Safety and Health Department connived with the factory owners in granting the firm a licence in the absence of all safety norms. A massive fire erupted on June 7 on the premises of SVS Aqua Technologies in Mulshi taluk. The blaze, which sounded like a bomb explosion to 37 workers trapped inside the cramped working space, spread with such rapid intensity that 17 of them, of whom more than a dozen were women, were instantly charred to death.More Related News
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