KOTA: Three labourers sustained severe burn injuries while one was feared buried under heated ashes after around 28 hoopers of ash handling plant of the 250-megawatt 4th unit of Chhabra Super Thermal Power Plant collapsed at Motipura under Bapcha police station of Baran on Thursday.
The labourers were working under it around 1am on intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. The overload of ashes (likely to be around 40 tonnes) in the plant due to excessive round-the-clock production of power amid high-pitched demand of electricity in the state, is believed to be the reason behind the collapse.
However, the thermal plant authorities claimed the reason is yet to be ascertained as the operation to rescue the labourer is underway by SDRF and NDRF. Meanwhile, the three injured are under treatment at Baran district hospital.
