A
worker died after being crushed by a ship's hydraulic door at a shipbreaking
yard in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong yesterday morning.
The
deceased, identified as Md Mansur Ali, 32, of Naogaon, was working at Seema
Ship Breaking Yard located at Madambibir Hat in the upazila.
At
about 10:20am, foreman Mansur tried to enter the ship's engine room through its
heavy hydraulic door. As Mansur was entering the room, the opened door swung
back crushing him against the ship's wall and killing him instantly, said Nur
Mohammad, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, quoting staff of the
yard.
Another
worker was killed in an accident at the same shipbreaking yard on February 28
this year.
At least 38 workers were killed and many others injured in
accidents at shipbreaking yards in the last 44 months.
Most
of these accidents have been attributed to lack of adequate safety precautions
in shipbreaking yards and the country's apex court had on several occasions
asked the government to frame rules and enforce them to ensure safety of the
workers.
Though
the shipbreaking sector has been declared an industry recently, the court's
directive regarding the safety measures are yet to be implemented.
Source:
The Daily Star. 3 May 2012
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=37438
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