Dangerous occurrences that must be reported (Section 88-A)

These events must be notified to the Inspector of Factories forthwith — whether or not anyone was injured.

Section 88-A of the Factories Act 1948, read with the rules, lists dangerous occurrences that are reportable even where they caused no bodily injury.

• Bursting of a plant used for containing or supplying steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure
• Collapse or failure of a crane, derrick, winch, hoist or other appliances used in raising or lowering persons or goods, or any part thereof, or the overturning of a crane
• Explosion, fire, bursting out, leakage or escape of any molten metal, or hot liquor or gas causing bodily injury to any person or damage to any room or place in which persons are employed, or fire in rooms of cotton pressing factories when a cotton opener is in use
• Explosion of a receiver or container used for the storage at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure of any gas or gases (including air) or any liquid or solid resulting from the compression of gas
• Collapse or subsidence of any floor, gallery, roof, bridge, tunnel, chimney, wall, building or any other structure

This page is a statutory / occupational-health reference for factory Occupational Health Centres. It is not medical or legal advice. Verify against the current bare Act, Rules and your State amendments before acting.