KAKINADA: Two supervisors — Kakarla Subrahmanyam (31) of Patavala Village in Tallarevu Mandal and Thotakura Venkata Ramana (37) of Mallavaram village of Tallarevu Mandal of East Godavari district — died and four employees were wounded in an explosion in a pharmaceutical unit.
The incident occurred at Autonagar in Sarpavaram of Kakinada Rural Mandal on Thursday Afternoon.
The four injured — operators Kudipudi Srinivas, Nammi Simhadri Rao and Regalla Rajkumar and Incharge deputy manager Kalaga Satya Saibaba — were rushed to a private hospital.
According to sources, raw material for calcium and other medicines, made out of waste from prawn, are processed in the unit with nitrofurantoin, nitric acid etc.
SP Adnan Nayeem Asmi said that when the process of mixing of nitric acid with other chemicals was on, there was a rise in temperature. A supervisor was trying to adjust the valve. Suddenly, a blast occurred. “Two supervisors died and four employees were injured,”…