Ludhiana, Aug. 22 -- A 25-year-old outsourced worker of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on Wednesday succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident while fixing a high tension line.

Amanpreet Singh fell from a pole at the Mahavir Jain Colony on Noorewal Road at around 4.40 pm on August 18 while on maintenance duty on a 11KV line in the Sunder Nagar division here. He was also accompanied by two other workers. He sustained a serious head injury in the accident and was admitted to the ICU at a private hospital here, where we died on Wednesday.

This is the fourth case involving PSPCL workers dying due to injuries on duty in Ludhiana in the last three months.

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