Six people died in a fire at a fireworks unit in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district.
In an incident that demonstrates the greatest impact of safety indifference, six workers were blown into pieces in a blast at Virudhunagar fireworks unit in Tamil Nadu during the peak hours of production on Friday. Fire and ashes engulfed the unit completely, and rescue operations were carried out in vain. The fire and debris could cut the rescuer out from recovering bodies.
However, this is not the first case where such awful incidences have occurred within the hub of fireworks production-Virudhunagar. Experts argue that poor safety measures, followed by legal lackadaisical tagging, but mostly lent by profit over life, are able to prove as powerful reasons causing these incidents.
While family members of the killed workers mourn their losses, grow louder the clamors for accountability now. Even as they argue about the fact that this industry is regarded as one of those highly lucrative avenues, anything is hardly done to keep safe those who sweat it out in such overhead circumstances.
While announcing an inquiry from the state authorities, locals have apprehended that this will be another routine exercise. The question is how many lives will now claim to be sacrificed before the government enforces such stringent regulations?
Virudhunagar blast is mournfully remembered as the toll of negligence against hazardous industries. Indeed, it is time that such incidences from Tamil Nadu turned the lives of workers and helped spare future accidents.
