16-year-old boy severely burnt with an overhead high-tension wire

Jamshedpur : Tragedy struck when a 16-year-old boy was severely burnt after he came in contact with an overhead high-tension wire while standing atop a dumper on Tata-Kandra Road in Gamharia. The victim, identified as Krishna Singh, was collecting iron-chips from the dumper.

The victim a resident of Baghbera , came in contact with the wire he remained stuck in the live overhead wire for few seconds and later he fell on the ground, screaming in pain. The dumper driver and some passers-by rescued him and later the Gamharia police rushed him to the MGM Medical College and Hospital emergency immediately.

The doctors on the emergency duty referred the victim to the burn care unit of the hospital, where the doctors who attended him said that the boy had sustained 95 percent of burns.

The mishap took place near Usha MartinTurning on the Tata-Kandra Road. As the news spread a police party from the Gamharia police station reached the spot. The police had subsequently rushed him to the medical college hospital, which is about 12 kilometres away from the scene of mishap.

” We are investigating the incident. As per our information the dumper was laden with iron-slag brought out from an industrial unit in Gamharia, and was on its way to a dumping yard in Gamharia. But the boy had come in contact with the high-tension wire as he climbed on the roof of the dumper,” said AN Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of the Gamharia police station.

Notably, the height of the Tata-Kandra Road which was built two years ago has been raised by three feet at some point of the 15 kilometre-long road, but the height of poles sustaining the high-tension line has not been increased accordingly.