CHANDRAPUR: Two contract labourers working for a sanitation contractor and a Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) staffer were killed while two others, including another WCL employee, fell unconscious after inhaling toxic gases in a sewage septic tank at WCL Sasti Township under Ballarpur area on Tuesday morning.
The accident exposed safety lapses in the sanitation works at WCL. The contract labourers were not provided any safety equipment, risking their lives while cleaning the septic tank filled with toxic gases. Three labourers had been killed in a similar incident while cleaning wells at Empress City Residency building in Nagpur four years back.
