One dies in Hetero Visakhapatnam Plant blast
Vishakhapatnam - A reactor blast that occurred at Hetero Drugs at Nakkapalle in Visakhapatnam district injured 5 people from which one of them is dead. The blast occurred at around 7:30 pm on Wednesday evening. The condition of two of the injured is said to be critical. Fire tenders rushed to the scene and doused the fire. Following the incident, the management stopped the operations in the plant.
The two among the five persons were critical and one person identified as A. Sai Ram was dead while undergoing treatment. The other person Gangadhar is said to be in a critical state.
The senior officers from the Department of Factories told the Hindu that the Hetero unit at Nakapalle is into manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) or bulk drugs for the domestic and semi-regulatory markets. The officers told that on Wednesday night, after neutralizing the material in one reactor by adding some amount of nitric acid the material was transferred to another reactor.
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