A cylinder explosion at a canteen inside an Oil India Limited installation in Assam’s Dibrugarh district left one person seriously injured on Sunday, November 8 afternoon, raising fresh safety concerns at the company’s facilities in the Tengakhat area.
The blast occurred around 3 pm at the OIL-run canteen in Murani, Block No. 4 of Kharikatia, near Tengakhat. According to preliminary information, the cylinder exploded suddenly, and the impact was heard across the locality, leaving residents and people working nearby shaken.
The injured man, who was associated with the canteen, was rushed to a nearby hospital by local residents and the administration. His condition was reported to be serious.
The incident comes just two days after a major explosion and fire at OIL’s intermediate tank farm in Tengakhat, which claimed four lives. The fire broke out on November 6 during maintenance work at the facility. The death toll rose to four on November 8 after another injured worker, Sailen Gogoi, a resident of Padumoni village in Tengakhat, succumbed to burn injuries at Aastha Hospital in Dibrugarh.
All workers killed or injured in the November 6 incident were employed by Spectron Engineering Private Limited, a Mumbai-based company engaged by OIL for maintenance-related work. Following that incident, OIL announced ex-gratia compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of the deceased and Rs 5 lakh each for those injured. The company also suspended three officers and one employee over alleged negligence in connection with the explosion and subsequent fire.
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who represents Dibrugarh in the Lok Sabha, has called for a high-level investigation into the circumstances leading to the November 6 explosion. The latest cylinder blast has renewed attention on safety arrangements at OIL installations in Tengakhat, particularly after the fatal incident at the intermediate tank farm earlier this week.
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Publish Date: 2026-11-08 22:24:00
