A construction worker died after falling from the fourth floor of an under-construction building in Bashundhara Residential Area in city’s Baridhara on
Monday. Police said the worker, Mohammad Miraz, 18, fell down while setting windowpanes at building no-137 of Block-F in the residential area at around 9:30am.
Miraz was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he died at around 11:30am.
Sub-inspector Mustafizur Rahman of Badda police station said that the process for filing a case in this connection was underway.
Miraz, a resident of Badda area of the city, came from Faridpur district.
On Thursday evening, four workers died after the carrier of a construction lift had broken off at Kakrail in the capital.
On July 17, a college student died when bricks fell off an under-construction high rise and struck him on Green Road in the capital.
On April 27, three construction workers died after the rope of a lift carrying them tore off in the Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka.
The situational analysis of labour rights carried out by the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies shows that the number of accidents at construction sites was 73 in 2010. The number of such accidents was 56 in 2009 and 100 in 2008.
The BILS survey, titled ‘Situation and condition of workers in the construction industry in Bangladesh: Review 2007,’ said that 592 construction workers had died in accidents at workplaces in 2005-2007.
The report also said that about 68 per cent of the workers had blamed lack of safety gear for the deaths and about 43 per cent of them had complained that after the accidents, families of the workers received no compensation from employers.
-With New Age input
