Eight laborers suffered burn accidents when molten iron instantly fell on them from a furnace in a metal manufacturing facility at Sahnewal in Punjab’s Ludhiana district on Thursday.

Police mentioned the incident occurred when the victims had been on night time obligation within the manufacturing facility. The injured had been rushed to the native civil hospital, the place the situation of two of them was acknowledged to be important.

Inspector Sukhdev Singh, the station home officer at Sahnewal, mentioned that his workforce was investigating the matter.

One of the victims, Sanjay Shah, mentioned eight of them had been working close to the furnace when instantly smoke engulfed the block and the molten steel fell on them. Four of them escaped with minor accidents, however 4 wanted to be hospitalised.