Pramesh S Jain
A 26 year old labour killed in freak accident while working at the metro site in Jayanagar 9th block in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Santosh Hansda is from Jharkhand and joined as contract labour four months ago.
This is the fourth time this year that a worker at a Namma Metro site has been killed.
He was working in rob segment stressing work on one of the pillar at the metro flyover when the 16 MM cable from pillar flung out and pierced through this head.
The other workers noticed Santosh dangling on the air and brought him down before rushing him to nearby hospital where the doctors declared him as brought dead.
Based on the complaint filed by Santosh brother, the Tilaknagar police charged the company executives charging them under death due to negligence and further investigation is on.
Santosh had joined the company four months ago which had taken the contract from BMRCL.
This is not the first time this year that a worker has lost his life at Metro construction sites. In November,a 24-year-old construction worker was killed and two others were injured after an iron beam being dismantled fell on them at a metro station construction site in Electronic City on Thursday.
In September, a 24-year-construction worker hailing from Bihar, Dhananjay Kumar, died while on duty at the Jayanagar construction site of the metro after a beam that was being erected fell on him.
In March this year, another accident happened at the Pattanagere Metro station in the city. A worker who hailed from Andhra Pradesh, fell while he was doing chipping work for the escalator shaft at this elevated metro which is part of Metro Phase-II. Though the person was rushed to a hospital, he did not survive the fall from the concourse level.
Ajay Seth,MD told media persons,that this is the second death report at the same stretch we will help the contractor labour and a audit will be done by team to investigate the matter he added
