Victims of industry
15-year-old Rasheda lost one arm, and critically injured the other, in a work-place accident at the Abul Khair Steel Mills in Chittagong.
Since the Rana Plaza disaster, which killed 1,132 garment workers, international attention has focused on workers’ safety in Bangladesh. From ship breaking to cigarette making, Bangladeshi workers frequently find themselves labouring in hazardous conditions.
Workers sort clothes at a garment factory near the collapsed Rana Plaza building.
A worker adjust a stack of jeans.
20-year-old garment worker Karuna Akter Lima, who was rescued from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, sits on a bed at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in Dhaka.
25-year-old Jesmin, who also survived the disaster, and is waiting for surgery for a spinal injury, lies on a bed at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP).
A relative tends to 25-year-old Rojina at the CRP. Rescue workers, who pulled Rojina from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, had to amputate part of her arm.
Mustafizur tries to comfort his 20-year-old wife Rebecca, a garment worker who was injured in the building collapse.
Workers fill up empty cigarettes with locally grown tobacco at a small bidi factory.
A worker crushes tobacco with a grinding machine.
A child assembles packages of cigarettes for sale.
Seven-year-old Karim works in a small bidi factory.
Children manufacture cigarettes from locally grown tobacco.
80-year-old Fazal Uddin, suffers from asthma, which his family attribute to working in a bidi factory for 8-10 years.
A worker helps his colleague to lift a bucket of limestone in a stone-crushing factory.
40-year-old Montu Mia, who worked in a stone crushing factory for five years, suffers from silicosis, caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
26-year-old Momin Ali, who worked in a stone crushing factory for two and half years and suffers from silicosis, looks though an x-ray of his lungs.
A man works inside a wrecked section of a ship at a ship-breaking yard.
A worker welds part of a ship at a ship-breaking yard.
23-year-old Noor Alam, who was injured at work, sits in his home.
A key hangs round the neck of a worker, in a common residence, near a ship-breaking yard.
