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Textile Unit Owner Booked After Worker's 70-Foot Fall in Thane
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News18•20-09-2026, 16:30
Textile Unit Owner Booked After Worker's 70-Foot Fall in Thane
- •A textile unit owner in Thane, Maharashtra, has been booked for negligence after a worker fell 70 feet.
- •The incident occurred on September 16 at a factory in the Saravali MIDC area, Bhiwandi.
- •Worker Gautamkumar Narsinghrao Kumar, 26, fell while descending an iron ladder after inspecting an RO plant and water tanks.
- •Kumar slipped, broke through a cement sheet, and plunged 70 feet down an open lift shaft, sustaining a spinal cord fracture, chest trauma, and fractured ribs.
- •Factory owner Kirankumar Babulal Shah, 69, was booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for failing to implement safety measures like covering the lift shaft.
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The 26-year-old worker, Gautamkumar Narsinghrao Kumar, slipped while descending an iron ladder after inspecting the RO plant and fibre water tanks on the factory terrace. He fell through a cement sheet that broke under his weight and plunged 70 feet down an open lift shaft.
The 69-year-old owner of the textile unit, Kirankumar Babulal Shah, has been booked for negligence under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after investigators found he failed to implement essential safety measures like covering the lift shaft.
The victim sustained a spinal cord fracture, severe chest trauma, and fractured ribs after plunging nearly 70 feet down an open lift shaft and landing on cardboard at the bottom.
