Accidents in factories

Company: RESHMI METALIS FACTORY location: KHARAGPUR, INDIA Date: Jan 21, 2013 Effects: 2 killed, 2 injured

CASE-1

At 10am on Sunday, Chattopadhyay, a production engineer, entered the machine with Goyal and Singh to clean it while Senapati was at its entry point. Just then, someone in the factory's control room switched on the machine. By the time Senapati jumped off and managed to turn the switch off, Singh had started spinning with the machine and died on the spot.

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Two staffers of Reshmi Metalis factory in Kharagpur died when a machine was switched on while three people and a production engineer were busy cleaning it on Sunday. When the machine restarted, three people were inside cleaning it. Rajkumar Singh, 28, was on the machine's mixture he it started spinning. He spun with it and died instantly. The factory's production engineer Monojit Chattopadhyay, 28, and worker SP Goyal, 22, too were inside while Karunamoyee Senapati, 30, was about to enter. Chattopadhyay succumbed to his injuries in a Kolkata hospital on Monday.

Contd.

Operations at the factory were suspended since Monday.

The company's AGM Surendra Jha said the victim's kin would be compensated in accordance with rules. He, however, claimed that the factory was operating.

After effects

COMPANY: NOKIAPLACE: SripreumbudurDate: October 31st 2010Effects: woman killed

CASE-2

A 22 year old, Ambiga had opened the inspection door of the loading machine when it got stuck. She was supposed to call the floor leader for such work but opened it herself. If the door is opened, the machine switches off automatically. But it can also be operated even if the doors are open and the girl had switched it on, unmindful of the danger. Her neck got trapped between the door and the tray. When she screamed, the others switched off the machine and broke open the trays to rescue her.

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“We are deeply saddened by this tragic incident and we offer our condolences and deepest sympathies to the family of our colleague in India. As a mark of respect, we closed our facility in Chennai on November 1st and members of our senior management have met with the family of our colleague.

We are investigating this tragic incident thoroughly and we are also collaborating with local authorities in India with full transparency. While it would inappropriate and insensitive to the family of our colleague to comment on the details of this accident until the full facts are known, we can say that the details being reported by some online media and tabloid publications are simply untrue.”

Nokia’s statement

Bhopal gas tragedy Location: Bhopal Date: 2-3 december,1984 Cause: Gas leak from Union Carbide India Limited

storage tank Deaths: At least 3,787; over 16,000 claimed Injuries: At least 558,125

Case-3

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster. It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way in and around the shanty towns located near the plant.

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problems such as storing MIC in large tanks and filling beyond recommended levels,

 poor maintenance  failure of several safety systems due to poor

maintenance safety systems being switched off to save

money— including the MIC tank refrigeration system which could have mitigated the disaster severity.

Contributing factors