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Reported Death of Workers in Bangladesh, Dec, 2007

Incident No	Name	Death or Injury	Age	Date of Report	Location of Incident	Industry	Cause	Source	Key Company or Organisation Involved
1	Saiful Islam	Death	22	1 Dec	Shantipur, Muksudpur, Gopalganj	Construction - brickfield	Mud collapse	Jugantor	AP Bricks
2	Ariful Islam	Death	22	3 Dec	Maldha, Patirhat, Bagherat	Service - electrician	Electrocution	Bangladesh Observer	Palli Bidyut Samity
3	Mostak	Injury	-	3 Dec	Sidique Bazar, Dhaka	Shoe Factory	Fire	Ittefaque	-
3	Amir Hossain	Injury	-	3 Dec	Sidique Bazar, Dhaka	Shoe Factory	Fire	Ittefaque	-
4	Sumon	Injury	-	6 Dec	Jagunjhuli, Commila Biswa Road, Commilla	Service - CNG workers	CNG Cylinder explosion	Protham Alo	Sonali CNG Filling Station
5	Swapon	Death	25	7 Dec	Neyamatpur High School, Karimganj, Kishoreganj	Construction	Electrocution	Ittefaq	Neyamatpur High School
6	Kaisar Mollah	Death	35	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Ruhul Amin Khan	Death	45	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Farid Sheikh	Death	25	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Jahid Mollah	Death	24	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Delwar Hossain	Death	45	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Mannan Sheikh	Death	45	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Ziru Mollah	Death	45	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Aminul Islam	Death	20	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Rahim Sheikh	Death	22	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Daud Hossain	Death	35	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
6	Shahidul Islmac	Death + 50 injuries	45	19 Dec	Rangs Building, Swaroni, Tejgaon	Construction	Collapse of building during demolition	All of them	Six Stars
7	Akkas Ali Akash and 10 further workers	Injury	-	16 Dec	Kanchpur, Sonargaon, Narayanganj	Construction	Roof collapse	Daily Star	OSC Filling Station
8	Ujjal Miah	Death	20	24 Dec	Aman Bazar, Hathazari, Chittagong	Service	Fire	Jugantor
9	Tariqul Islam	Death	14	12 Dec	Demra, Dhaka	Service	Fire	Jugantor	Rabiul Alam's shop

Incident 1: Death of Saiful Islam (22), 1 Dec 2007, Gopalganj
Earth collapsed ontop of him while engaged in working in AP Bricks, Brickfield

Incident 2: Death of Ariful Islam (22), 3 Dec 2007, Bagherat
A 'line man' of Palli Bidyut Samity, climbed up an electric pole to repair the electric line and touched a live wire.

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Incident 3: Injury to Mostak and Amir Hossain, 3 Dec 2007, Dhaka
Seriously Injured in a fire at the factory

Incident 4: Injury to Sumon, 6 Dec 2007, Comilla
At a CNG station the cylinder in a private care exploded. Sumon, along with the driver of the car and a taxi driver standing closeby were injured

Incident 5: Death of Swapon (25), 7 Dec 2007, Kishoreganj
Whilst involved in the construction at Neyanatpur High school, he was electrocuted after touching a live wire.

Incident 6: Deaths of eleven people at Rangs Bhavan, 19 Dec 2007, Dhaka
Whilst demolishing a multi-storey building, part of the building collapsed in the middle of the night killing the workers

Incident 7: Injury to Akkas Ali Akash (45) and 10 other workers , 16 Dec 2007, Narayanganj
Whilst constructing a CNG pumping station, the roof collapsed and the workers became trapped under the rubble.

Incident 8: Death of Ujjal Miah (20), 24 Dec 2007, Chittagong
Fire from an electric short circuit gutted the shop where Ujal, a shop employee, was sleeping.

Incident 9: Death of Tariqul Islam (14), 12 Dec 2007, Dhaka
He lived in his owners store room and he died as a result of a fire..