Staff Reporter :
Workplace accidents in 2017 claimed 1,242 lives and injured 371 people in the country, according to a report on casualties prepared by Occupational Safety, Health and Environment (OSHE) Foundation.
The toll rose slightly in 2017, as 1,240 workers were killed in 2016, said Saki Rezwana, the chairperson of Bangladesh OSHE Foundation in a press briefing at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) on Saturday.
The report was prepared based on news published by 15 newspapers, and information gathered from spots by staff of the foundation.
According to the foundation’s report, 270 workers were killed in formal sector, while 972 others in informal sector in the outgoing year.
The highest 488 workers died in transport sector, 179 in construction and 52 in apparel sector, the report said.
Besides, 99 death victims are farm workers, including those killed in lightning strikes, while 103 are day- labourers, 22 domestic workers, 28 fishermen, eight steel mills, and re- rolling mills and 18 shipbreaking workers.
