IOC employee falls to death from solar company building

A 58-year-old man accidentally fell to his death in the premises of a solar energy company in Kempathimmanahalli, near Devanahalli, on Tuesday. The deceased identified as C Ram Prasad, a resident of JP Nagar, was the general manager in the engineering section at Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).

Police said Prasad, while he was at the Velnet Non-conventional Energy System Pvt Ltd (Kamal Solar) at Kempathimmanahalli village on Tuesday, accidentally fell from a height of 20 feet. The incident happened at 1 pm. He succumbed to the injuries in the evening.

Prasad and his colleague Pramodh were at the plant to inspect a solar water heater that the IOC had ordered from the company.