Bangalore: Five workers were killed and 13 others injured in the campus of IT major Infosys Technologies on Wednesday, when a scaffolding crashed at the site of an additional software development centre, police said.
"The incident occurred when the victims who were fixing the facade of the glass standing on the scaffolding fell on a concrete floor from a height of 45-50 feet after one of the ropes (holding the scaffolding) gave way from the top," Bangalore Deputy Commissioner of Police (south-east) Subhendru Mukherjee said.
The injured have been rushed to the St John's Hospital in the city and Narayana Hrudyalaya, adjacent to the electronics city, about 30 km from Bangalore, for treatment. One of them was reported to be critical, while the remaining 12 were recovering.
An official of Shoba Developers, a construction firm that executes all Infosys building projects in the country as its main contractor, said the families of the five victims would be paid about Rs.2,50,000 as ex-gratia under the Workers' Compensation Act and a matching amount by the company after completing investigations into the incident.
The IT bellwether has one of the largest campuses in the electronics city on the outskirts of Bangalore. The specific work of fixing the glass facade was sub-contracted to CCCL Ltd of Chennai, the official said.
This is the second accident in the electronics city after three workers died last week in the Biocon Park campus when an under-construction storeroom came crashing down.
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