Rhon­dor Dowlat

An ex­plo­sion rocked the soft drink com­pa­ny S M Jaleel in Ota­heite yes­ter­day leav­ing three peo­ple in­jured.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that the vic­tims– Ravi Ma­haraj, Ryan Ma­haraj and James Joseph were up to late last night be­ing treat­ed for burns they sus­tained in the in­ci­dent.

Hos­pi­tal of­fi­cials at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH) con­firmed that Ravi is crit­i­cal and cur­rent­ly ward­ed in the In­ten­sive Care Unit. He suf­fered third de­gree burns in the up­per body and face.

Ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion re­leased by the com­pa­ny to the T&T Guardian at 9:45 am while per­form­ing a rou­tine as­sess­ment of an elec­tri­cal pan­el the three con­trac­tors sus­tained elec­tri­cal burns.

The trio were im­me­di­ate­ly at­tend­ed to by the com­pa­ny's Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Health Spe­cial­ist, nurse and an HSE Of­fi­cer.

They were tak­en by am­bu­lance to the SFGH ac­com­pa­nied by SM Jaleel's HSE Staff.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the com­pa­ny are said to be at the hos­pi­tal mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion.