India, Sept. 19 -- A 32-year old worker has died due to severe burns and another has been critically injured due to a blast in a chemical factory in Palghar on Thursday evening. The injured victim is being treated at a private hospital in Palghar.

According to the police, Limbani Salt Industries, situated in a private industrial estate not far from the Palghar railway station, is a factory that manufactures chemicals and supplies them to various labs and industrial sectors. On Thursday, the owner of the factory and five workers were manufacturing a chemical product when the reaction between a metal and an acid resulted in the blast, said the police.

The police said that the two workers who suffered severe burn injuries in the blast were...