A massive fire broke out due to storage tank explosion in chemical manufacturing company Ether Industries, employees got burnt

Surat: A sudden fire broke out at around 2:00 pm in a company named Ather Industry Limited located in Sachin GIDC area of the city. Before the employees on night duty at Ether Company could understand anything, the fire took a horrific form and a stampede broke out. The incident occurred due to an explosion in the storage tank of Ather Industries Limited. At the time of the incident, more than 50 employees were working inside and people could not understand what had happened.
The sudden fire along with the loud sound of the explosion created chaos. Many workers got burnt.

As soon as information about the incident was received around 2 pm, more than 10 vehicles of the fire department reached the spot. The workers were taken out safely. In which more than 24 laborers suffered minor injuries and burns due to the fire. So he was immediately shifted to a private hospital. Now we have controlled the fire and cooling operation is going on here but there is no casualty in the incident. – Chief Fire Officer Basant Parekh
Fear of loss worth crores: Let us tell you here that there are many plants in Surat Sachin GIDC in which volatile chemicals are also manufactured. This is not the first incident of fire in a chemical factory. But due to this massive fire that broke out at night, more than 24 workers got burnt. The cause of the explosion in the storage tank is not yet known. The matter is being investigated by the fire department. However, there has been a loss of crores of rupees due to the fire. Whatever machinery was inside the company has been burnt to ashes.