Gas leak in GNFC plant near Dahej, 4 dead, over a dozen affected

Bharuch: At least 4 workers of the Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (GNFC) have died while around a dozen others affected owing to leakage of a poisonous gas in the Toulene Di-Isocyanate (TDI) plant of the company located in Rahiad village near Dahej in Bharuch district.

Police today said that Phosgene gas leaked from a pipe in the plant late last night affecting over a dozen workers of whom four died.

The other over a dozen affected, have been admitted to local hospital.

Inspector of Factories V J Gandhi said that the matter was being investigated.

Notably the same plant was issue a closure notice by the industrial safety department in January 2014 when a similar incident of the leakage of Phosgene gas in the TDI plant had left 15 seriously ill.

DeshGujarat