It should have been shut down nearly a year ago. But, despite an order by the Madras High Court, UK-listed Vedanta Resources has been allowed to continue operating its highly-polluting Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) copper smelter in Tamil Nadu.
On 17 August 2011, according to information coming from within the plant, a 45-minute poisonous gas leak partially-suffocated some of its workforce.
Now – less than four months later (14 November 2011) – a contract worker has died, and another was seriously injured, after being sucked into a duct that should itself have been closed down.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11313.