2017 NTPC power plant explosion

When

1 Nov 2017

Kind

Explosion

Coordinates

25.91° N, 81.33° E

Description

2017 industrial disaster in India

Deaths

32

Injured

80

2017 industrial disaster in India

The NTPC power plant explosion was a boiler explosion that occurred on 1 November 2017 at a newly commissioned 500-megawatt unit of the Feroze Gandhi Unchahar coal-fired power plant. The plant is operated by government-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited, in Unchahar, Uttar Pradesh, India. The explosion killed 32 people who may have been cleaning ash from the boiler's interior.

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