Water supply to Nakhon Pathom districts disrupted by fatal accident

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Water supply to Nakhon Pathom districts disrupted by fatal accident

By The Nation

 

 

Five districts in Nakhon Pathom province may have to go without tap water for two days, on Saturday and Sunday, because of an accident at a private water-filtering plant that led to the death of a worker by drowning.

 

The accident happened on Friday evening at the raw-water filtering plant of TTW Plc in Moo 9 village in Tambon Bang Rakam, Bang Lane district, at around 3:30pm.

 

Chaiwat Uthaiwan, the managing director of the company, said the factory supplied raw water to the Omnoi water plant of the Nakhon Pathom Provincial Waterworks Authority, which supplies tap water to five districts – Omnoi, Samphran, Nakhon Chaisri, Buddha Monthon and a part of Muang district.

 

The five areas will not get tap water until the factory’s control room is fixed.

 

Pichai Isararungruang, 50, a technician, drowned after the valve of a water pump slipped out because of water pressure, resulting in a rupture of the water pipe.

 

The worker could not extricate himself after the gushing water caused him to be hit by a 1.5-metre-long metal pipe, which pinned him down while seven workers managed to escape from the underground control room in time.

 

Chaiwat said the accident occurred after a power outage in the underground control room. The eight workers were sent down to check the water pumps, as one of them did not restart.

 

Chaiwat said normally the power would cut off and the main water valve would be turned off during maintenance but the company was still in the dark how the accident had happened.

 

Apart from Pichai, five other workers were severely injured and rushed to two hospitals. One of them had his finger cut off and the other suffered head injuries.

 

Scuba divers were sent in to retrieve Pichai’s body from the chamber, which is about seven 7 metres deep. It took four hours to retrieve his body.

 

Chaiwat said Pichai’s family would receive Bt500,000 for life insurance initially and would be given a supporting fund from the company as well as Pichai’s provident fund.

 

The injured workers would receive full support for medical treatment, he added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30329811

 

 

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