By Noel IyombwaAN UNEXPLAINED fire at Kafue Gorge Lower Hydropower Plant (under construction) has killed one employee and leaving another hospitalised while the third one has been discharged.Energy minister Matthews Nkhuwa confirmed the incident in a statement that the fire occurred on October 23rd 2020 at around 11:30hrs.Mr Nkhuwa disclosed that preliminary investigations have revealed that the three employees were assigned to cut protruding tie rods bars that were used to hold formwork on the upstream face of the Roller Comparted Concrete (RCC) dam wall.He explained that as the workers who were in a motorized cage were cutting a tie rod mid-way on the dam surface, fire from the cutting torch caught on to nylon rope that was next to the motorized elevated working platform and the burning rope fell to the foot of the dam on a pile of remnants of polyuria – a waterproof coating that has been applied on the lower section […]
Fire partially engulfs Kafue Gorge, kills 1
