About 20 women, were hastened to a hospital on Thursday, after a gas leakage was reported at a dairy plant located at Bandapalli village of Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district.
The Chittoor collector said that there was an ammonia gas leakage and that the women are currently undergoing treatment at a hospital and are in a stable condition.
“We got the information that Ammonia gas was leaked at Hatson company milk process unit near Putalapattu at around 5 pm. Labourers who were working in that shift are brought to the hospital here in Chittoor. Among them, 3 people are serious and probably will be shifted to SVIMS or Ruia hospital in Tirupati,” news agency ANI quoted Narayan Bharat Gupta, Chittoor District Collector, as saying.
“All are stable. All of them are women. It is to yet be ascertained whether this incident is a result of the negligence of management or the negligence of the workers. Industries department general manager and fire department officials will review the ground-level situation on Friday,” he said.
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