PEACE TIME EXPLOSIONS

     Headlines Continued to Scream on the Explosions in the Cracker Industries

An explosion at a fireworks factory in southern China killed 11 workers and injured 17 others, state media and a local official said on Saturday.

8 killed in Kumbakonam crackers' blast

• Blasts were triggered by raging flames that engulfed two fire cracker units on Thursday near Sivakasi town in Tamil Nadu, authorities said. There were immediately no reports of casualties.

• Sep.5 2012            Thirty-eight persons, including two women, most of them believed to be villagers who rushed to the site of an explosion at a cracker unit, were killed when a large stock of explosives blew up on Wednesday afternoon. Thirty-three persons were wounded and have been admitted to government hospitals in Virudhunagar district and Madurai.

• Three persons were killed and 21 others were injured in an explosion at a cracker unit at at Chithanayakanpatti near here on Wednesday. The accident happened when workers were involved in the process of filling chemicals for crackers at a room in Meenakshi Fireworks.

• SIVAKASI: In a major fire accident, at least 52 people were dead, while 50 more injured in an explosion in a fireworks manufacturing unit in Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district in south Tamil Nadu. While police confirmed that 10 bodies were pulled out of the debris, they say the number of deaths could be higher. The accident occurred around 12.15 pm at Om Sakthi Fire works in Mudhalaipatti located in the fireworks manufacturing hub of Sivakasi. About 40 rooms in the manufacturing unit collapsed trapping many of the employees.

• January 12, 2013 14:39 IST In the second fireworks unit mishap this month in Tamil Nadu, three men were killed in a blast in their factory at a remote village in Virudhunagar district, police said on Saturday.The workers were mixing chemicals for making some fancy firework when the blast occurred due to friction at the unit in Sindapalli village near Sattur, about 80 km from in Madurai, last evening, they said.The intensity of the blast was so powerful that the bodies of the workers were blown to pieces and flung several feet away. The shed where they were working was razed to the ground, District Collector T N Hariharan said.

• May 15, 2013 - Police said the fire also resulted in a series of explosions in the unit. ...Tags: fireworks factory Sivakasi Sivakasi explosion Tamil Nadu. Sivakasi: Three persons were killed and 13 seriously injured in a blaze that swept through a private fireworks factory after an accidental explosion at Singampatti today.
  
  
  
  At least  500 million people will celebrate the festival of lights during the week end in India. Good. But please look at the casualties list. Are we into the preparation of nuclear bombs or chemical weapons? Simple crackers! Can't we import technology from outside? should we lose our brethren in hundreds for the momentary happiness of  some people? Can't we celebrate Diwali without crackers? Can't we manufacture these crackers under safer conditions?  Can't we ensure safety of the employees?   Is not bursting crackers in billions cause immense pollution?
  
  My simple suggestion is to employ  at least one ammunition expert, who must be an ex-serviceman. If such persons  happen to be the safety officer of  each factory, there would be definitely a decrease of these cruel incidents.  But who will listen to me?
  
  
  After every accident, compensations are announced and tears shed for a day or two. O.K. Let us celebrate Diwali and pollute the atmosphere as usual.