At the very least 15 employees had been crushed to demise when a girder-installation machine fell on them on the website of an under-construction Expressway linking Mumbai with Nagpur metropolis within the western state of Maharashtra’s Thane right this moment, the Indian media reported citing police.
The machine is a special-purpose cell gantry crane utilized in bridge development. It’s used to put in precast field girders in freeway and high-speed rail bridge development initiatives, experiences our New Delhi correspondent.
The incident befell within the early hours close to a village in Shahpur Tehsil, PTI quoted an unidentified official as saying.
The demise toll is prone to rise, the official added.
The 701km Expressway between Mumbai and Nagpur, which is a key metropolis of Maharashtra, is being constructed by state-owned firm.
