Friday 1 December 2017

5 Years After Deadly Factory Fire, Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Still Vulnerable.

Bangladesh is home to the second largest number of garments exports in the world, and now, exactly five years ago, in November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed at least 112 workers, conditions in the nation's garment factories are still woefully lacking in light of demands from the world's largest fast fashion retailers. 

Likely caused by a short circuit on the ground floor of the building, the Tazreen Fashions factory  fire rapidly spread up the nine floors where garment workers were trapped due to narrow or blocked fire escapes. Many died inside the building or while seeking an escape through the windows. 

Just five months later, the collapse of the Rana Plaza building killed 1,134 garment workers and injured hundreds of survivors. Rana Plaza was an eight-storey commercial building that housed garment units on its upper levels. The building that collapsed had already been evacuated the day before after cracks were identified, but the factory management had made workers return to work under the pressure of looming shipping deadlines. During the morning rush hour, the building collapsed in on itself like a house of cards.



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Full story at The Fashion Law.

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