Fire breaks out at Deepak Nitrite GIDC plant

Deepak Nitrite on June 2 witnessed five major chemical blasts at its manufacturing facility in the Nandesari GIDC area in Vadodara, which led to a major fire, according to news reports.  Smoke was visible from a long distance and 7-8 fire-fighters reached the spot to put out the fire, reports added.

#deepaknitrite - Accident in its Nandesari facility. Its an old plant with Nitrates capacity. Details yet to be known. pic.twitter.com/98hX603ZKL

— Arun Mukherjee (@Arunstockguru) June 2, 2022

After the accident, the company released a statement saying it was monitoring the situation and that the safety of its staff and the communities around is of foremost priority to it.

Deepak Nitrite releases a statement on the #fire incident at its Nandesari facility in Vadodara pic.twitter.com/LKD2XMQdy2

— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18Live) June 2, 2022

Of late, experts have been raising concerns about the safety of industrial units in various parts of the country. A few weeks back, a fire broke out at a factory in Delhi's  Mustafabad where one person was charred to death while six got injured.

In another incident, over 20 shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in central Delhi’s Jhandewalan cycle market on May 20.