Metro-7 is 16.475 km long elevated corridor with 13 Metro stations from Andheri (E) to Dahisar (E). It will be made operational in 2019 and the corridor is expected to see commuter traffic of 4.79 lakh people daily.
Iron rods used in the construction work on the Andheri (East)-Dahisar (East) Metro-7 corridor, tilted towards the ground near Aarey Colony on the Western Express Highway on Saturday afternoon. However, this caused no injuries, though the service road at WEH was blocked. MMRDA has said it will issue a show-cause notice to the contractor, J Kumar Infrastructure, for the incident.
Metro-7 is 16.475 km long elevated corridor with 13 Metro stations from Andheri (E) to Dahisar (E). It will be made operational in 2019 and the corridor is expected to see commuter traffic of 4.79 lakh people daily.
MMRDA claims the incident took place due to a crane touching the iron rods while work was in progress on a pier. Pravin Darade, Addtional Metropolitan Commissioner, said, "We will issue a show-cause notice to J Kumar Infastructure. This has occurred due to air pressure of the crane, and it is the contractor's responsibility to take safety precautions on site."
A spokesperson, J Kumar Infrastructure, said, "One of the metro pillar reinforcement of line 7 unfortunately got tilted while fixing shuttering. Fortunately there was no injury to men in any form and nor there was any damage to machinery. And we shall take best possible efforts to avoid such instances in future."
Dilip Kawathkar, spokesperson for the MMRDA, said, "After completion of the pier reinforcement (iron rods) for Metro-7, stagging was removed to provide shuttering. Accordingly, one three-meter shutter was fixed and at 4 pm, while fixing the second shutter by hydra crane, the hydra's boom touched the reinforcement bars. The leakage of air pressure from the hydra resulted in the bending of the reinforcement."
Kawathkar added, "The reinforcement bent and twisted towards service road. Fortunately, there were no casualties. The incident took place at Aarey Junction on WEH."
This is the second time such an incident has taken place on the construction site of Metro-7. In June 2017, a pier reinforcement – colloquially, a bunch of iron rods – came down crashing at WEH in Jogeshwari. At the time, MMRDA had held heavy rains and wind as culprit.
No police complaint or case has been registered against the contractor by MMRDA. "No one has approached us yet for registering a complaint," said Jyotsna Vilas Rasam, senior police inspector of Vanrai police station.
In June, iron rods inside the barricaded area of construction site had collapsed. In September 2012, a similar incident occurred during Metro I work, where an under-construction structure collapsed, killing one worker.
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