Shuttering Work: Electric shock kills youth, wounded another
Bandipora, July 14: A youth died while another was injured after receiving electric shock while doing shuttering work in Kalosa area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
Police sources told news agency KNT that two persons were busy in doing shuttering (Formwork) when they received electric shock. One of them identified as 22 years old Irfan Ahmad Hajam, son of Gulam Rasool of Kaloosa succumbed to his injuries in the Bandipora hospital while another person Aqib Ahmad Ahangar, son of Gulam Ahmad Ahangar, also a resident of Kalosa is undergoing treatment in the hospital.
Formwork (shuttering) in concrete construction is used as a mold for a structure in which fresh concrete is poured only to harden subsequently. In this work, workers depend on electricity. (KNT)
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