Among these, at least 35 were textile factory incidents in which 491 workers were injured and 27 lost their lives. Since the Rana Plaza disaster, no fewer than 109 accidents have occurred. As a result, deaths from fire incidents and building collapses are frequent. Most of the factories do not meet standards required by building and construction legislation.
These disasters, among the worst industrial accidents on record, awoke the world to the poor labour conditions faced by workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh.įor some of the lowest wages of the world, millions of people, most of them girls and women, are exposed every day to an unsafe work environment with a high incidence of work-related accidents and deaths, as well as occupational diseases. Only five months earlier, at least 112 workers had lost their lives in another tragic accident, trapped inside the burning Tazreen Fashions factory on the outskirts of Dhaka. On 24 April 2013, the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment factories, killed at least 1,132 people and injured more than 2,500.
The Rana Plaza disaster, Savar, Bangladesh
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