Clarification

Epic Garments Manufacturing Company Limited in a statement yesterday clarified that several of its workers sustained minor injuries while rushing out of its canteen in panic after a steam generating machine went out of order with a big noise in Narayanganj's Adamjee Export Processing Zone on December 25. In response to media reports on this incident, the Epic authorities gave the clarification claiming that it was not a “boiler blast”, rather malfunctioning of a steam generating machine. It also stated that the Epic authorities rushed the injured to nearby medical facilities and none was critically injured.