In an accident at world’s largest ship-breaking yard at Alang in Gujarat,
a migrant labourer from Orissa died and another injured
while working on a container ship that was beached for being broken at
the yard in Bhavnagar district, official sources said here on Tuesday.
The incident happened when the 27-year-old victim
Prasant Dakua slipped and fell while climbing a ladder during the oil removal
process of the container ship MV Justus which was beached on plot number
58, belonging to Malwi Ship Breaking Company. The incident happened on Monday
evening at 6 pm, said an official of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) that
overlooks and monitors shipbreaking activities at the yard.
Another labourer who was working with him was also injured and rushed to
the hospital. The injured was identified as Ravindra Prajapati, the official
said adding the accident happened when oil and other forms of lubricants were
being emptied from the ships before being broken.
This is the second accident to have happened within a space of three
months at Alang. On June 28, five persons were killed
and eight others injured when an explosion happened onboard a chemical tanker
that was being dismantled.
Source: the Indian Express. 23 September 2014
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