The Hindu Business Line : Four die at Hyundai sewage treatment plant site

Chennai, Dec. 8 Four people died in an accident in a sewage treatment plant construction site at the Hyundai Motor India Ltd factory on Friday night, according to Hyundai officials.

A Hyundai official said that three of the dead were engineers from Thermax. The fourth was an employee of one of the civil contractors. The accident occurred around 8.30 p.m.

According to the official, when the treatment facility was being tested, one of the engineers entered a pit to check a defective pump. He fainted after inhaling the poisonous gases from the sewage. The others entered one after the other to help and were overcome by the fumes, the official said.

The bodies of the victims were retrieved with the help of the fire service personnel present at the Hyundai factory site, according to the official.

A case has been registered with the Sriperumbudur police station and an official investigation is on.

Companies’ statement

A joint press release from Hyundai and Thermax said that there has been an accident leading to the demise of four persons on the night of December 7. Until investigation is completed the precise cause of these fatalities will not be known. Thermax is commissioning a sewage treatment plant at Hyundai Motor India, in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu.

Thermax and Hyundai have announced an interim relief of Rs 2 lakh respectively to the family of each of the deceased, the press release said.

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