Tuyere of blast furnace bursts at Vizag steel plant

  Big tension gripped some time in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant after one of the Tuyers of Blast Furnace-3 burst followed by a fire mishap on Friday. After the mishap, rumours spread that some of the workers and employees were injured in the mishap. However, the RINL management, revealing the accident details in an official release,  that it was a minor fire mishap and no one suffered any injuries and no damage occurred to the equipment. The fire was doused immediately and the Blast Furnace-3 was shut down safely for further inspection and subsequent restarting.

Meanwhile, the official sources informed that there would be some damage to the Blast Furnace, however after a detailed examination only, the actual loss would be counted. "After any fire mishap, generally some amount of loss will generate and in the steel factories, such incidents are quite common. However, it is a good day, no one injured in the incident. After a technical team investigation only, the Blast Furnace will be switched on," a senior RINL official said.