Two engineers have been suspended and one more has been transferred by the management of the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TS-Genco) on Thursday in the coal mill accident at the stage-one of Kakatiya Thermal Power Plant (500 megawatt unit) at Chelpur in Jayashankar-Bhupalapally district on April 25.
In all, seven personnel, including artisans and contract workers, were injured in the accident. One of them, K. Veeraswamy, an artisan, who was among the three undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital here, succumbed to injuries on Wednesday. Two others – Seetharamulu and Venkateshwarlu – are still undergoing treatment here while others were admitted at Bhupalapally hospital.
The decision to act against the engineers on duty (shift) was taken at a meeting of the directors of the utility held here on Thursday, wherein the accident was reviewed in detail.
