Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, Oct 05, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, Oct 05, 2002 |
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Accidents SPIC ammonia unit shut due to leakage problem M. Ramesh
CHENNAI, Oct. 4 THE ammonia unit of Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation (SPIC) at Tuticorin has been shut down due to a leakage in the pipeline. When the repair works were going on, a fatal accident occurred on October 1, company sources told Business Line. Sources said that after the southern grid failure last month, technical problems arose in SPIC's plant, causing a leakage in the pipeline. The plant has been shut down since September 27. While trying to do the repair work, Mr Thiraviyaraj, Joint Manager (Operations) slipped and fell. The gas mask he was wearing came off and he died of asphyxiation, it is learnt. It is understood that it would take at least another 10 days to restart the plant. None of the senior officials of the company was available for comment, and therefore, no estimate of the value of loss in production is readily available. Only last year, the Tuticorin plant of SPIC had been shut down between May 1 and June 22 for a "routine turnaround maintenance", which caused a loss of production of 1.03 lakh tonnes of urea.
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