Overview
- Four workers died and two remain critical after a nitrogen leak at Medley Pharma in Tarapur-Boisar on Thursday afternoon.
- Local police and the Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health inspected the site, with a technical assessment of the nitrogen tank pending.
- An FIR names four senior company officials for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and police say no arrests have been made yet.
- The deceased were identified as Kalpesh Raut, Bangali Thakur, Dheeraj Prajapati and Kamlesh Yadav, while Rohan Shinde and Nilesh Hadal are in the ICU.
- Officials said the leak occurred from a reaction tank during routine operations, with reports noting production of Albendazole was underway and about 36 workers were on site.