Sentences with phrase «factory building collapsed»

Last April, 1,133 people were killed when the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in Bangladesh, injuring an additional 2,500 people.

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The 8 - story building that collapsed housed a number of garment factories, a shopping mall, and a bank.

The Rana Plaza building collapse follows a November fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka that killed 112 people, and it has compounded concerns about worker safety and low wages in Bangladesh.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 160 and could climb higher, police said on Thursday, with people trapped under the rubble of a complex that housed garment factories supplying retailers in Europe and North America.

It's hard for a company in any of the three countries to know how to calculate the payoffs of sourcing car parts from the US or building a factory in Mexico if, in a just few years, access to those parts or that labor might become a lot more costly if NAFTA collapses and border taxes start soaring.

Fields that the country had devoted to rice production were destroyed to build factories, leading to an acute rice shortage and eventually economic collapse.

A Lake Ronkonkoma man who was injured after falling about 20 feet through a collapsed floor at an abandoned factory building in East Marion factory is claiming that both Southold Town and Suffolk County were negligent in securing the property, contributing to his injuries.

We'll tut - tut about the factory fires, the building collapses, the fainting epidemics, and the deaths we hear about, of course.

Four years ago, when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 employees, it was extremely difficult to find out which companies sourced their apparel from that specific factory — a building that employees knew was unsafe.

This week, another garment factory building outside Dhaka collapsed after cracks were discovered in the concrete walls.