{"id":457923,"date":"2021-12-22T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T05:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457923"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T06:57:34","slug":"three-dead-44-injured-in-fire-at-iocs-haldia-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/three-dead-44-injured-in-fire-at-iocs-haldia-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead, 44 injured in fire at IOC&#8217;s Haldia refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three persons died and 44 were injured, many of them critically, when a fire broke out at a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation\u2019s refinery in Haldia on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The flash fire was reported at the under-maintenance motor spirit quality (MSQ) unit shortly after a safety drill for employees and contractual workers in the area. <\/p>\n<p>An IOC source said the fire started around 2.50pm when sparks from a welding operation landed on inflammable material being used for the job, causing an explosion. One of the cylinders brought for welding appeared to have exploded, the source added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three persons died and 44 were injured, many of them critically, when a fire broke out at a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation\u2019s refinery in Haldia on Tuesday afternoon. The flash fire was reported at the under-maintenance motor spirit quality (MSQ) unit shortly after a safety drill for employees and contractual workers in the area. An IOC source said the fire started around 2.50pm when sparks from a welding operation landed on inflammable material being used for the job, causing an explosion. One of the cylinders brought for welding appeared to have exploded, the source added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}