Sentences with phrase «killing hundreds of workers»

When we hear about factory collapses in Bangladesh killing hundreds of workers or unethical practices in clothing company supply chains, we should be incensed, but we should also be examining how we are complicit through our purchases.

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DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

A World Vision worker in Mexico City has told Premier of his horror when a major earthquake struck near the Mexican capital, killing hundreds of people.

In late 1998 and early 1999, hundreds of pig industry workers in Malaysia and 11 employees of a Singaporean slaughterhouse came down with a severe form of encephalitis that killed about 40 % of its victims.

When the outbreak began, health workers first feared the culprit was Ebola virus, which killed hundreds of people in the same country (then called Zaire) in 1995.

At least six power plants, including Dongfang Electric in the city of Deyang where building collapses killed at least 100 workers and trapped hundreds more, have been damaged by the quake, according to the State Grid Corporation of China.

The updated requirements, issued by the Interior Department, come roughly six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 workers and polluted hundreds of miles of U.S. shoreline.

Dozens of workers are killed and hundreds injured in trench collapses annually.