Overview

• Police registered a case against the contractor after scaffolding supporting a steel arch gave way at the Ennore SEZ thermal project’s expansion site, sending 10 workers down and killing nine.
• All nine deceased were migrant contractual workers from Assam, identified by officials, and one worker remains hospitalised in stable condition at Government Stanley Hospital.
• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced ₹10 lakh compensation for each bereaved family, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved ₹2 lakh from PMNRF for the deceased and ₹50,000 for the injured.
• The Kattur police and Avadi commissionerate are probing technical and safety lapses, and the site has been sealed for structural inspections.
• The project is being executed by BHEL, with reports naming Metalkarma Engineering Technologies as a subcontractor employing the victims, and arrangements are being made to repatriate the bodies to Assam.