Minor fire breaks out a Vizag steel plant

Visakhapatnam: A minor fire broke out in a blast furnace at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant on Friday.

No one suffered any injury and no damage occurred to the equipment, a press release from the steel plant said here.

One of the tuyers of Blast Furnance -3 in the plant burst at around 9 am , resulting in the minor blaze.

The fire was doused immediately and the blast furnace shut down safely for further inspection and subsequent restarting, the release added.