Two men suffered major burns while one sustained minor injuries when a leaking valve led to a pipe burst spewing boiling oil over them. The incident occurred on Friday morning at the maintenance department of the Orient Press Facility at Tarapur where the victims -- Avinash Warke (50), Vipul Gharat (27) and Pradeep Singh (20) are employed.

At around 10 am on June 7, Gharat and Singh, who are fixers, accompanied boiling manager, Warke, to inspect a boiler pump whose oil seal had to be replaced. However, the valve was allegedly not fitted properly resulting in hot oil being sprayed on them.