Overview
- The gantry-platform collapse that hit the Dahisar–Bhayandar Link Road casting yard Saturday killed two labourers working on a platform about 12 meters up, police said.
- The victims, Raghunath Das, 38, and Kana Singh, 45, were pulled from the site and declared dead at a nearby hospital.
- Bhayandar police registered an accidental death report and are examining whether a mechanical failure, poor maintenance, or unsafe practice caused the fall.
- The civic body appointed Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute experts to run a technical inquiry and ordered fresh third-party checks of gantries, cranes, and other heavy gear.
- Work at the yard is shut pending audits, and BMC warned contractors of penalties as it rechecks safety rules across the Versova-to-Bhayandar coastal road packages after a separate fatal rig collapse this week.