HARIPUR: A factory worker was killed when an elevator fell on him at a biscuit manufacturing unit of Hattar Industrial Estate here on Monday.

Hattar police said the victim, Zahir Shah, 58, belonging to Swabi, was struck by the elevator while cleaning the space under it, leaving him critically injured.

The police quoted Mohammad Ali, a son of the deceased, as saying that his father suffered head injuries and was taken to a hospital by the factory administration, but he was pronounced dead.

The factory management told the police that the elevator fell on the labourer after developing some fault.

Meanwhile, deputy director labour, Hazara, Faizullah Khan told Dawn that the deceased was a permanent worker of the factory, and was entitled to all the benefits under the labour laws.

He said the factory’s administration had agreed to pay his family Rs300,000 as death compensation, also hire a son of the deceased.

The Workers Welfare Board also announced to give Rs600,000 as death grant to his family.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2022