Workplace Accidents
490 killed in 2012
Says Safety and Rights report
At least 490 workers were killed in workplace-related incidents across the country in 2012, including the 112 deaths in the November 24 Tazreen Fashions fire in Ashulia, says a Safety and Rights Society (SRS) report.
The figure was 388 in 2011, said the report, published at the Mohammadpur office of SRS, an NGO working for promoting safety and rights of workers, in the capital on January 1, 2013.
The report, based on the 2012 reports in 26 daily newspapers (15 national and 11 regional), does not include deaths outside workplaces or in road accidents to and from workplaces, says a press release.
The highest number of deaths, 173, occurred in factories and other manufacturing organisations, followed by 149 in the construction sector, 82 in service organisations like hotels, workshops and power supply organisations and 86 in agriculture and others sectors.
In 2011, electrocution caused the highest number of deaths but in 2012 it was from fires, totalling to 117. Moreover, 111 died in electrocution, 75 died after falling from a height, and 37 were crushed to death by machinery or hard objects.
Another 94 workers died from various causes including boiler, chemical and gas explosions, suffocation and earth, roof and wall collapses.
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