Oil India Limited (OIL) has suspended four personnel, including three officers and one employee, for alleged “dereliction in discharging official duties” following the explosion and fire at the company’s Intermediate Tank Farm (ITF) in Tengakhat in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
The action comes as the death count in the incident rose to three on Saturday with another critically injured worker dying due to burn injuries.
Earlier, two people had lost their lives in the incident. The death count in Friday’s massive explosion and fire at OIL’s ITF at Tengakhat increased after Rupam Gohain of Tengakhat died while undergoing treatment at Nemcare Hospital in Guwahati. Considering the severity of his injuries, OIL authorities later shifted him to Guwahati for advanced treatment. One of them was engineer Tapas Jyoti Gogoi, employed by Spectron Engineering Pvt. Ltd., who died of burn injuries at a private hospital in Dibrugarh. Another victim had also died following the explosion and fire.
The action comes as the death count in the incident rose to three on Saturday with another critically injured worker dying due to burn injuries. Because of his injuries at Nemcare Hospital, however, despite medical efforts, he died. Gohain was initially admitted to Oil India Hospital in Duliajan immediately after the incident on November 6.
Four people have been suspended in connection with the incident, according to OIL spokesperson Prankush Malla Buzarbaruah.
