The fire at a deodorant unit at Ramasandra in Kumbalagodu in which three persons were charred to dead, has now put the safety of workers in the informal sector back in the spotlight, apart from the risk such units present to those near them.
The police are still ascertaining if the unit was only crushing cans or also refilling them. Usually, junk dealers collect the empty cans and store them before crushing the same to sell them. These aerosol cans are manufactured using aluminum and the crushed cans are sold to be melted.
