In the late hours of a Friday in Telangana's Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, a reactor at a pharmaceutical manufacturing unit gave way during a shift change — that liminal moment when attention is most divided — killing two workers and injuring nine others. The blast ignited a fire that firefighters eventually contained, but the human cost could not be similarly bounded. It is a familiar story in industrial India: the pressure to produce meeting the fragility of the systems that make production possible, and workers bearing the full weight of that collision.
Reactor blast at Telangana pharma unit kills 2, injures 9
Two workers killed and nine injured, including two with severe burns exceeding 50% of body surface area.
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