Rayagada: A truck driver from Andhra Pradesh died after falling into boiling tar in a plant in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Monday.
According to sources, the driver, identified as A Krishna Raju, had brought several drums of coal tar from Visakhapatnam to a plant at Durgi Sadar under Bisamkatak police station in the district. The plant has a unit for mixing molten tar on its premises.
While Raju was pouring the tar from a drum in the truck into the boiling unit, he accidentally slipped and fell into it. As he died in the boiling tar, the plant authorities informed the police.
A police team from Bisamkatak along with Fire Brigade went to the spot and retrieved Raju’s body from the molten tar. The police have informed Raju’s family about the incident and sent the body for post-mortem. They have also registered a case and started investigation.
