🔆 Hyderabad Pharma Blast Sparks Concerns on Industrial Safety Norms
📍 36 killed in blast at Sigachi Industries’ pharma unit, Hyderabad
✅ Chemical involved: Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) — inert but risky if mishandled
✅ Victims mostly young, poor migrant workers from eastern & northern India
✅ Blast likely caused by equipment malfunction due to poor maintenance
✅ Highlights lack of trained personnel and inadequate process safety norms
✅ Telangana govt announced ₹1 crore ex gratia for affected families
✅ Puts spotlight on pharma industry’s safety culture, especially post similar accidents in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad
✅ Urgent need for HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study) and process hazard analysis
✅ Plants must conform to global safety norms, ensure training, & data-driven monitoring
✅ India’s export-reliant pharma sector now under intense media & regulatory scrutiny
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