Fatal accidents at workplaces are reported every other day. On 8th September, four workers were killed and two others injured at a factory in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district. The new labour laws will make it even easier for factory owners, employers and management to get away with overlooking and ignoring workers’ safety and social security. While […]
With economic growth and industrial progress, India has also witnessed an unfortunate consequence: a disturbing rise in fatal accidents at workplaces. Tens of thousands of workers die at a horrifying rate in accidents at workplaces across the country. Groundxero | March 24, 2024 In the last 7 days, between March 18 and March 24, […]
The toxic gas leak at the Atchuthapuram Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) on June 3, 2022, once again shows the pathetic industrial safety culture in and around Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts. Friday’s leak resulted in about 200 women employees at the Brandix Apparel plant rushing out in panic after being exposed to noxious fumes.Medical and health […]
A firecracker factory blast in in Achankulam, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu took the life of 19 workers from financially backward and Dalit communities. While the administration has claimed to have initiated investigation, fact remains that such incidents of workplace deaths of marginal workers are frequent, largely unattended and quickly forgotten in the Virudhunagar-Sivakasi-Sattur region and elsewhere. A […]
At around 5 AM on 8th December, 2019, a massive fire broke out in a luggage factory in the Anaj Mandi neighborhood of Delhi. Over one hundred workers were sleeping on the upper floors of the factory when the fire broke out, and found themselves trapped inside. The factory had been operating illegally without fire escapes, and the […]
Last Sunday, on 8 December, at least 43 workers died in a massive fire that broke out in a factory operating in a residential area at Anaj Mandi in Delhi. Deadly fires and other accidents at workplaces, resulting in injuries and even death of workers, are a regular occurrence in this country. The safety laws […]