MURDER IN THE SHIPBREAKING YARDS CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH "Workers still die in the shipbreaking yards. Many workers suffer injuries and some have died. Workers die due to lack of safety gear. Families do not receive proper compensation for deceased family members. Owners and management are exempt from punishment. They bribe police to settle everything. The owners have never been arrested for killing workers." Coworker of Enamul Haq, killed May 26, 2015
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Table of Contents Four Workers Killed at the RA Shipbreaking Yard In Chittagong, Bangladesh ............................................................................................................ 1 A Prescription for Murder ............................................................................................................ 1 Brutal Working Conditions ............................................................................................................ 3 40 cent Wages, 12-hour Shifts, Seven-day Work Weeks, No Safety Gear ........................... 3 Primitive and Crowded Living Conditions ................................................................................ 4 Shital Enterprise: Four More Shipbreakers Needlessly Killed ............................................ 6 Interview with Shital Worker Witness to the Accident .......................................................... 10 Another Shipbreaking Worker Badly Burned ......................................................................... 12 An In-Depth Interview with “Worker F” ................................................................................. 15 Death, Injuries and Enormous Environmental Damage .................................................... 18 Fourteenth Worker Killed in the Shipbreaking Yards .......................................................... 19 Addenda: Wages in Bangladesh’s Shipbreaking Yards........................................................................... 20 Fourteen Shipbreaking Workers Killed to Date, November 18, 2015 ............................... 21 Workers Severely Injured in 2015 ............................................................................................. 22 43 Shipbreaking Yards in Bangladesh ..................................................................................... 23
Cover Photos: Top: Half-broken ships, Aman Trader and SCF Arctic, at the Shital Enterprise shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This photo was taken in September, days after a gas explosion at the yard killed four workers and severely injured four others. Bottom left: Shajahan, severely burned in the September 5, 2015 gas explosion at the Shital Enterprise yard.
Author: Charles Kernaghan Research: Barbara Briggs, Cassie Lignelli, Shreya Raghuraman, IGLHR-Bangladesh Team Report Design: Cassie Rusnak
Bottom right: Mohammad Firoz, 24, severely injured at the MA Shipbreaking Yard, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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I N S T I T U T E F O R G L O B A L L A B O U R A N D H U M A N R I GNovember HTS 2015 w w w. G l o b a l L a b o u r R i g h t s . o r g
FOUR WORKERS KILLED AT THE RA SHIPBREAKING YARD On June 8, 2015, Nur Uddin, 22, a helper at the RA Shipbreaking yard, was killed in a gas explosion. He was working on the crude oil tanker, Jawa Nehru, which had not been properly cleaned of gas and oil. When sparks from the blowtorch ignited the combustible materials left in a tank, Nur Uddin was burned beyond recognition. He was married and had a two-year-old child. Four months later, there was another gas explosion on the Jawa Nehru, and three more workers lost their lives. A PRESCRIPTION FOR MURDER At 8:00 a.m. on October 13, 2015, the workers at the RA Shipbreaking yard were already at work on the Jawa Nehru, which by then was 70 to 80 percent broken.
Photo: IGLHR
Photo of the Jawa Nehru taken days before the October 13 accident.
At around 9:30 a.m., the fitter men were taking apart some pipes in the hold of the ship. Cutters nearby were using blow torches to cut up an iron door, when all of a sudden sparks from the torches ignited the gas and oil left in the pipes. There was an explosion and blast of deadly flames.
Three workers, Mohammad Rasel, Khairul Islam and Aminul Islam were badly burned. It happened so suddenly that they fell where they had been working. Their co-workers used plastic sheets as stretchers to carry the injured workers off the ship. Tortured with burns, the victims were loaded into small auto-rickshaws and taken to the hospital in Chittagong. There was a hospital right in the shipbreaking yards, which would save lives—but it has been shut down since it was built, so all victims of shipbreaking accidents have to be taken to Chittagong, which can take up to an hour.
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Mohammad Rasel died of his burns on October 18, 2015, five days after the accident. Rasel, who was 20 years old and single, left behind his parents, a sister and a brother. Rasel came to Chittagong to work in the shipbreaking yards to support his family. This was his first job and he had worked for only three months. Rasel’s goal was to support his sister and brother’s education.
Khairul Islam, 22 died on October 20. He had been married for just 3 months and was his parents’ only child.
Aminul Islam, 30, also died on October 20. He was married and had a 16-year-old daughter and two sons, 10 and 12 years old, whom he hoped to educate.
The shipbreaking yard management gave the families of the dead workers 10,000 taka ($128.65) to pay for their funerals.
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WAGES, HOURS AND WORKING CONDITIONS
Shipbreakers work 12-hour shifts, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a week. There is no overtime pay. Workers earn just 40 cents an hour and $3.24 for the 8-hour day. The shipbreaking workers have no rights.
--No legal wage structure --No sick days --No medical care --No Safety gear --No weekly day off --No legal overtime --No ID card --Trade unions are strictly prohibited.
In 2012, when senior workers at the MM Shipbreaking Yard, Sheema Steel and Asadi Steel Enterprise tried to organize three unions in the yards, management immediately intervened and blacklisted the activist workers.
BANGLADESH SHIPBREAKERS ASSOCIATION (BSBA) “NO ATTENDANCE / NO WORK / NO MONEY” As of November 2015, some 43 shipbreaking yards are functioning, with some 12,500 shipbreakers. (From January to March, 2015, serious political conflict across Bangladesh impacted the scrapping of the ships.) The government of Bangladesh has not mandated any specific wage structure for the shipbreaking workers. Wage increases are at the will of the owners. There has not been a wage increase in 2014 or 2015. In the face of death –14 deaths so far this year!—the Bangladesh Shipbreakers Association Hospital is still shut down!
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LIVING CONDITIONS FOR SHIPBREAKING WORKERS
Typically 3 or 4 workers share a small 8’ by 10-foot rented room.
The workers sleep on paper-thin mats spread out on the concrete floor.
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The workers have no TVs, no refrigerators.
During the day the corrugated tin roof and walls heat up. With no ventilation, the workers drip with sweat.
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They cook their own meals of rice, lentils and vegetables on small gas burners.
There is no indoor plumbing. Workers pump water for drinking, cooking and bathing from a shared well.
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FOUR MORE SHIPBREAKING WORKERS NEEDLESSLY KILLED AT SHITAL ENTERPRISE On Saturday, September 5, 2015, at 7:45 a.m., eight shipbreakers entered a wooden shed at the Shital Enterprise Yard to fetch gas cylinders. Some of the cylinders had been left leaking and gas had filled the shed. Someone lit a match to see, igniting the gas. Khokon (24), Al Amin (26), Muksedul (26), and Shajahan (30) were burned to death. Four others, Nadim (26), Badsha (25), Abdur Rob (25), and Mannan (24) were badly burned.
Khokon, burned to death September 9
Al Amin died of his burns September 10
Muksedul died of his burns September 10
Shajahan died of his burns September 12
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FOUR MORE WORKERS BADLY BURNED AT SHITAL ENTERPRISE
BADSHA 25 years old Fitter
ABDUR ROB 25 years old Fitter
NADIM 26 years old Fitter
MD. MANNAN 24 years old Fitter
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There are two ships being dismantled at Shital Enterprise, the Greek-owned Aman Trader and the Russian-owned SCF Arctic.
Aman Trader and SCF Arctic October 16, 2015
Aman Trader at anchorage in Singapore, June 2015.
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The oil tanker SCF Arctic in Spain, September 2008.
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OTHER BANGLADESHI SHIPBREAKING WORKERS KILLED IN 2015
May 26, 2015: Enamul Haq, 42, a fitter at Ferdous Steel shipbreaking yard fell to his death from the deck of the ship he was dismantling.
June 6, 2015: Sadam Hossain, 20, a fitter at the Crystal Shipbreaking yard, slipped and fell from the ship he was working on. He was brought to the yard office, then loaded into an auto rickshaw and brought to the Chittagong Medical College hospital, where he was declared dead at 12:01 pm.
JUNE 8, 2015: Nur Uddin, 22, died of burn injuries in the RA Shipbreaking yard. Mr. Uddin, a helper, was working with a cutter-man in the hold of a ship called “JAWA RA� when the contents of an oil tank, that had not been properly cleaned, caught fire as they were using a blowtorch to cut the huge tank apart.
June 27, 2015: Mohammad Borhan, 23, was killed instantly when a heavy iron plate hit him on the back of the head. Mr. Borhan worked as a helper hauling pieces of metal scrap at the Ziri Subeder Steel Re-Rolling Mills shipbreaking yard.
July 6, 2015: Mohammad Ali, 18, a helper at the Zuma Enterprise Shipbreaking yard, was struck on the head by a falling oxygen cannister on June 30. He died of severe injuries one week later.
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An Interview with a Senior Shital Enterprise Worker
who witnessed the accident on September 5, 2015 “The lives of the shipbreaking workers have no value to the shipbreaking owners or the government. They do not consider us as human beings.” Interviewer: What is your name? Interviewee: My name is “R”* [For his protection, the worker’s name will not be made public.] Interviewer: Where do you work and how long have you worked there? R: I have been working for Shital for five years as a cutter man. Interviewer: What is your regular shift? R: I start working at 7.00 a.m. and finish working usually at 7.00 p.m. It is a 12-hour shift with an hour break for lunch from 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. Interviewer: How many workers are there in the yard? R: Between 320 and 330 workers work at the Shital Enterprise yard. Interviewer: How many shifts does the yard have? R: Currently only one shift—the day shift. Interviewer: How many ships are lined up for dismantling? R: At present two ships. One is partially broken and the other is yet to be broken. Interviewer: Do you know what happened on September 5, 2015—when the fire broke out? R: Yes. I know because I was working in the yard then. Interviewer: Can you explain to me how it happened? R: I am a cutter man in the yard. I was 25 yards away from the place where fire broke out. In the yard there are a total of 40 fitter men [whose job it is to dismantle ships’ pipes, tanks and boilers]. They work in different groups. Each group numbers 8 to 10 men. The foreman allocates their work and splits the fitter men up among different jobs when work begins. Some are inside the ship and some are in the yard. The fire broke out in the yard at 7:30 a.m. on September 5. A group of eight fitter workers were preparing to enter a storage shed where there were several gas cylinders. I heard from some fitter men that some of the gas cylinders were leaking. The cylinders were not inside the ship but rather in the yard. Someone lit a flame to light up the shed.
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The explosion and fire occurred just when a fitter man lit a flame. The room with the cylinders was filled with leaking gas. With a touch of flame, the gas exploded. This was at around 7.45a.m. There was nothing to stop the fire and smoke. When the fire broke out there was thick smoke in the shed. The fitter workers could not run away. They were badly burned and just fell to the ground. The fire broke out at 7:30 a.m. and was over at 7:45 a.m. The workers and office staff approached the burned and injured workers. The medical assistant came to help. He washed their burns with safe [clean] water. Using plastic sheets the injured workers were carried to a van and taken to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Among the eight injured workers, four workers died: Mr. Al Amin, Muksdul, Khokon and Shajahan. Four other workers were seriously burned, but have survived. Interviewer: Do you know the wage of the fitter men? R: Yes. The fitter workers’ wage is Tk 250 [$3.21] for eight hours. They also have to work three hours overtime a day. Interviewer: Do the workers get double overtime premium? R: No, the company never pays an overtime premium. They give us straight time. Interviewer: How many days do you work in a week? R: Seven days a week, but on Fridays we work four hours -- from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Interviewer: When do you get paid? R: We are paid twice of a month, between the 5th and 7th of the following month, and between the 20th and 22nd. Interviewer: Do you get sick days and an Eid bonus? R: No, if we work we get paid. If we don’t work, we don’t get paid. Interviewer: Does the Shital Enterprise company supply workers with safety equipment? R: No. Management provides just two pairs of cheap gloves in a month—just to the cutter men. Generally other workers are not supplied with any safety gear at the shipyard. There are no goggles, hard hats, boots or other safety equipment available for workers at the yard. Interviewer: Does the Bangladesh Shipbreakers Association (BSBA) provide hospital care? R: No. An ambulance is urgently needed to save the lives of victim workers. But, unfortunately not one ship-breaking yard has an ambulance. The government and owners of the yards could easily afford an ambulance to help save worker’s lives but it is not important for them. The lives of the shipbreaking workers have no value to the government and local ship-breaking owners. They do not consider us as a human beings. If a worker dies in an accident, the owners can get away with paying 100,000 taka [$1,284 to the family]. To them the value of a worker is no more than 100,000 taka [$1,284].
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ANOTHER SHIPBREAKING WORKER BADLY BURNED Mohammad Firoz, 24 years old At the MA Shipbreaking Yard in Chittagong September 5, 2015 Mr. Mohammad Firoz worked as a senior “cutter man” at the MA Shipbreaking Yard. His shift was from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—12 hours, seven days a week, earning just 49 cents an hour. The name of the ship he was cutting was the “Ingenious.” On September 5 at approximately 12:45 p.m., Mr. Firoz was cutting into one of the oil tanks on the ship. The tanks should have been cleaned, but oil and gas had been left inside. Mr. Firoz started cutting a small hole in the tank when a spark ignited raging flames. He received terrible burs. Yard staff took Mr. Firoz in an auto rickshaw to the hospital, where he was admitted to the burn unit at about 1:30 p.m. There is no ambulance at the shipyards! Mr. Firoz was finally released from the hospital on November 1, nearly two months after the accident. He is living in his home village in North Bengal and will not return to shipbreaking.
INJURIES ARE THE NORM * On March 22, 2015, a 24-year-old helper, Nizam Akon, fell from the deck of the ship he was working on in the Shima Shipbreaking Yards, fracturing his right hand.
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* On April 11, 2015, Mr. Idris, a senior cutter at Ferdous Steel shipbreaking yard was working on dismantling the ship Euros London, when a huge propeller blade fell, hitting the side of his head and destroying his lower left leg. His left leg had to be amputated below the knee. He also lost sight in his right eye. Idris is still in severe pain and unable to support his family. Mr. Idris lost his left leg and sight in his right eye.
Idris and his family in their home.
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The container ship on which Mr. Idris was injured, the Eurus London, IMO 9015321 was built in 1992. Eurus London made at least three trips to Gulfport, Mississippi in August, September and October 2014 before being decommissioned and sent to Chittagong, Bangladesh in December 2014.
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* On April 6, 2015, at 6:50 pm, the “cutterman” Mr. Azhar Uddin, had his left leg badly crushed and broken when a large iron slab fell on him. Mr. Uddin earned just 47 cents an hour! Like the rest of the shipbreakers, workers were not issued any safety gear. Mr. Uddin worked at the S. Trading Corporation.
Azhar Uddin
Ken (IMO 8124010) Shipbreaking Yards January 23, 2015
* On October 31, 2015, 42 year old Mr. Mohammad Jahangir – a cutter at the S. Trading Corporation – was working inside the container ship, the Altavia, when the iron plate he was cutting unexpectedly broke in half. The iron plate, weighing over 1100 pounds, shattered his right leg. As of November 9th, Mr. Jahangir remains hospitalized. Mr. Jahangir worked in the shipbreaking yards for 28 years, and earns just 48 cents an hour – to do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The S. Trading Corporation does not provide its workers with any safety protection!
Mohammed Jahangir
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Container ship Altavia (IMO 9064322) in Iwakuni, Japan, August 2011
November 2015
An Interview with “Worker F” Co-worker of Enamul Huq, killed on May 26, 2015 at the Ferdous Shipbreaking yard
Workers still die in the shipbreaking yards. Many workers suffer injuries and some have died. Workers die due to lack of safety gear. Families do not receive proper compensation for deceased family members. Owners and management are exempt from punishment. They bribe police to settle everything. The owners have never been arrested for killing workers.
Interviewer: Can you tell me your full name and what work you do? Worker F:
My name is “F” and I have been working at Ferdous Steel for two years as a cutter man.
Interviewer: What do you do in the yard? Worker F:
I am a cutter man working inside the ship.
Interviewer: Is this your first job in the shipbreaking industry? Worker F:
No, this is my fourth job. I have had seven years’ experience working in different shipbreaking yards.
Interviewer: How many workers are there in the yard? Worker F:
Three hundred workers toil in the day shift and 100 workers toil on the night shift.
Interviewer: When do you get paid? Worker F:
We get paid every 15 days—twice a month—on the 7th and on the 22nd of the following month.
Interviewer: When do you start working? Worker F:
On the day shift I start working at 8:00 a.m. and finish work at 8:00 p.m. It’s a 12-hour shift with an hour lunch break. We get paid for 11 hours.
Interviewer: Do you get sick days, vacation time and Eid holidays? Worker F:
No. We do not get any paid sick leave. If we work, we get paid. If not, we don’t get paid.
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Interviewer: Have working conditions improved? Worker F:
No. Working conditions have not changed. Safety in the workplace is our main concern. Workers still die in the yard while working. Many workers suffer injuries and some have died. Workers die due to lack of safety gear. Families do not receive proper compensation for deceased family members. Owners and management are exempt from punishment. They bribe the police to settle everything. The owners have never been arrested for killing workers. Nor have our wages been raised over the last two years.
Interviewer: Are there any unions in any of the yards? Worker F:
I have no idea.
Interviewer: Do you think that a union could help make things better? Worker F:
Yes. But the owner will never allow workers to unionize. They will fire us the minute we try to organize.
Interviewer: Do you see any hope, any improvement in the shipbreaking yards? Worker F:
We have been working years after year, but we don’t notice any positive changes. How can I dare hope for a brighter future? We are not united, and we are afraid. Nothing will change in the future.
Interviewer: What do you know about the death of a worker in Ferdous Steel? Worker F:
I know that Enamul Haq died in an accident on the morning of May 26, 2015, while he was working.
Interviewer: How old was Enamul? What did he do in the yard, and how did he die? Worker F:
Enamul was 42 years old. He was a fitter man in the ship. When a ship is broken up, the first goal is to cut apart the engine room. Enamul started working on the morning shift at 8:00 a.m. on May 26, 2015. Around 8:30 a.m. he went to throw some metal scrap off the ship. A piece of pipe got caught on his glove and pulled him off balance. He fell from the deck of the ship, from a height of 25 or 30 feet onto an iron plate. I was working about 15 feet away. I heard him scream for help. When I got to where he was, he was groaning in pain. He was bleeding from the head. We took him to the office. Company staff took him in an auto rickshaw to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital. There the attending doctor declared him dead. Interviewer: Why didn’t the company take him to the BSBA [Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association] hospital? Worker F:
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The local hospital has been shut down for many years.
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Interviewer: What kind of a person was Enamul? Worker F:
Enamul was a good friend of mine and an experienced worker. We used to shop in the same grocery store and sometimes took tea together. His behavior was good and everyone liked him for his decency.
Interviewer: How much did Enamul Haq earn each month? Worker F:
He made Tk 240 ($3.09) for eight hours, and he always worked 11 hours a day, six or seven days a week.
Interviewer: Does the company pay double overtime? Worker F:
No, the company does not pay us a double overtime premium. All we get is the flat rate.
Interviewer: Was Enamul wearing a helmet? Does the company issue safety gear? Worker F:
Even as a senior cutter man, I don’t get any safety equipment. How do you expect that a fitter man would get safety gear? Like other workers, Enamul was toiling in the yard without any safety equipment. The company gives me only a cheap pair of gloves to last for the whole month. That is all! They don’t give us helmets, or goggles or boots or vests. They don’t even give us coarse shirts to protect us from the sparks.
Interviewer: Do you know if Enamul’s family received any compensation? Worker F:
I have no idea.
Enamul Haq was killed on the tanker Pratibha Chandrabhaga, renamed the Leo I.
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DEATHS, INJURIES AND ENORMOUS ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IN BANGLADESH’S SHIPBREAKING YARDS – Toxic chemicals, Flammable gases, Asbestos, Lead, Petroleum –
For 40 years, shipbreaking has been done on the beaches on the Bay of Bengal. It is one of the most dangerous jobs and also one of the dirtiest. Bangladesh desperately needs steel for construction, since the country has no domestic source of iron. Everything on the ship is recycled. The 12,500 workers who break up giant ships using blowtorches are Bangladesh’s steelworkers. But they still have no rights, no safety gear, job security or proper wages. Forty years later, Bangladesh’s shipbreaking workers still have nothing, working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week with no overtime pay. The workers still live in miserable hovels, 3 or 4 workers sharing each tiny room. It is time for a change! Shital Enterprise workers, like the rest of the shipbreakers, do not receive adequate protective equipment—no steel-toe boots, protective masks, googles or welding vests to protect them from being burned.
“They bribe the police to settle everything. The owners have never been arrested for killing workers. Nor have our wages been raised over the last two years.” – Co-worker of Enamul Haq, killed May 26, 2015
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FOURTEENTH SHIPBREAKER KILLED IN CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH T U E S D A Y, O C T O B E R 2 7
The Killing of Mr. Salauddin On, October 27, 2015 at 2:20 a.m. at night, Mr. Salauddin was immediately killed when a huge iron plate fell on him. He died immediately of a severe head injury. Mr. Salauddin was a helper who worked on the night shift at the SN Corporation Shipbreaking Yard. Just two months earlier, on August 25, 2015, Mr. Elias was killed in the same yard.
The Bulk Discovery sailing the Mississippi River, 2014.
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The Bulk Discovery (IMO 8806187) in the SN Shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh, October 2015.
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WAGES IN BANGLADESH’S SHIPBREAKING YARDS - 11,000 to 12,500 Shipbreakers Earn 24 to 52 Cents per Hour -
Shipbreaking Worker Helper working in the yard: Helper working in the ship: Wire man in the yard: Loader, mainly in the yard: Fitter man in the yard: Cutter man in the yard: Cutter man inside the ship:
Earnings in USD 24 to 26 cents an hour 29 to 30 cents an hour 30 to 31 cents an hour 30 to 31 cents an hour 39 to 45 cents an hour 37 to 45 cents an hour 45 to 52 cents an hour
A Helper working in the yard earns 6,400 to 6,800 taka a month: 24 to 26 cents an hour $2.73 to $2.90 a day $19.14 to $20.33 a week $82.93 to $88.12 a month $995.21 to $1,057.41 a year A Helper working inside the ship (which is considered more dangerous) earns 7,400 to 7,800 taka a month: 29 to 30 cents an hour $3.16 to $3.33 a day $22.13 to $23.33 per week $95.89 to $101.08 a month $1,150.71 to $1,212.96 a year A Cutter man working in the yard earns 9,500 to 11,500 taka a month: 37 to 45 cents an hour $4.06 to $4.91 a day $28.41 to $34.39 a week $123.10 to $149.02 a month $1,477.26 to $1,788.26 a year A Cutter man working inside the ship earns 11,500 to 13,500 taka a month: 45 to 52 cents an hour $4.91 to $5.77 a day $34.39 to $40.37 a week $149.02 to $174.94 a month $1,788.26 to $2,099.26 a year.
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FOURTEEN SHIPBREAKING WORKERS KILLED TO DATE – NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Workers Killed
Name
Age Job
Yard
Ship
May 26, 2015
Enamul Haq
42
Fitter
Ferdous Steel
Leo I
June 6, 2015
Saddam Hossain
20
Fitter
Lianhua
June 8, 2015
Nur Uddin
22
Helper
June 27, 2015
Borhan
23
Helper
Crystal Shippers M/S RA Shipbeaking Yard Ziri Subedar
July 6, 2015
Mohammad Ali
18
Helper
August 25, 2015
Md. Elias
30
Fitter
September 5, 2015
Al Amin
26
Fitter
September 5, 2015
Khokon
24
Fitter
Shital Enterprise
September 5, 2015
Muksedul
26
Fitter
Shital Enterprise
September 5, 2015
Shajahan
30
Fitter
Shital Enterprise
October 13, 2015
Md. Rasel
20
Fitter
October 13, 2015
Khairul Islam (Rafikul)
22
Fitter
October 13, 2015
Aminul Islam
30
Fitter
October 27, 2015
Salauddin
MS/RA Shipbreaking Yard MS/RA Shipbreaking Yard MS/RA Shipbreaking Yard SN Corporation
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Helper
Zuma Enterprise SN Corporation Shital Enterprise
Jawaharlal Nehru Eurus Lisbon PSU Second Sunses Xi SCF Arctic / Aman Trader SCF Arctic / Aman Trader SCF Arctic / Aman Trader SCF Arctic / Aman Trader Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru Bulk Discovery
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WORKERS SEVERELY INJURED IN 2015
Date 1
March 22, 2015
2
April 10, 2015
3
April 06, 2015
4
August 13,2015
5 6 7 8 9
August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 August 22, 2015 Sept. 5, 2015
10 Sept. 5, 2015 11 Sept. 5, 2015 12 Sept. 5. 2015 13 Sept. 9, 2015 14
October 31, 2015
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Name (Age) Job Nizam Akon (24) Helper Idris (42) Cutter Azhar Uddin (34) Cutter Nasir (45) Foreman Jal Hass (32) Fitter Shopikul (28) Fitter Ismail (48) Fitter Nazim Uddin Roki (17) Helper Mannan (24) Fitter Badsha Sheik (Pasha) (25) Fitter Nadim (26) Fitter Abdur Rob (25) Fitter Feroz (23) Cutter Md. Jahangir (42) Cutter
Yard Name
Designation
Shima Ship Breaking
Fractured right hand.
Ferdous Steel
Left leg amputated. Lost sight in right eye.
S Trading Corporation. Crystal Steel Ship Breaking S N Corporation (Unit 3) S N Corporation (Unit 3) S N Corporation (Unit 3) MM Ship Breaking Shital Enterprise Shital Enterprise Shital Enterprise Shital Enterprise
Left leg crushed. Left hand amputated. Severe burns. Severe burns. Severe burns. Severe burns to face. Severe burns over much of body. Severe burns over much of body. Severe burns over much of body. Severe burns over much of body.
MA Ship Breaking
Head injury from fall.
S Trading Corporation
Compound fracture to right leg, hit by falling metal slab.
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43 SHIPBREAKING YARDS IN BANGLADESH – NOVEMBER 2015 –
Serial #
NAME of Yard
SHIP NAME
IMO #
Status
1
MAHEEN ENTERPRISE
2
MACCA SHIP BREAKING YARD
3
K S B SHIP BREAKING
4
PACIFIC STEEL INDUSTRIES
Gissar
unbroken— arrived recently
5
MAS SHIP BREAKERS
Aeolian glore
Half broken
6
MEHEREN SHIP RECYCLING
Channel Alliance Hongkong
7
S.L. SHIP BREAKING
Marsi
8
MAPS SHIP BREAKING
Ricsky Panama
8500496
9
SIX STAR CORPORATION
10
7 B ASSOCIATION
Melchior
9100102
11
SHITAL ENTERPRISC
Aman Trader
12
MASTER & BROTHERS.
13
MOTHER STEEL LTD.
Leo 2 Basseterre
14
SAIED STEEL
N S -16.
15
K R STEEL
Natzujec
16
BHATIRY SHIP BREAKERS LTD.
17
FERDOUS STEEL CORPORATION
Garnet
18
CRYSTAL SHIPPERS LTD.
Charlestown, Monrovia
New ship/ unbroken
19
S.TRADING CORPORATION
Marine 1 lemo
Three Ships are broken to some extent
20
S.L SHIP BREAKING RECYCLING.
Marsi
one recently arrived / one partly broken-- 2 ships
21
JANATA STEEL INDUSTRIES.
Ramsi
8016990
One unbroken/one partly broken-- 2 ships
22
SN CORPORATION (UNIT1)
Bulk Discovery
8806187
unbroken/recently arrived
23
ASADI STEEL ENTERPRISE.
24
CHITTAGONG STEEL ENTERPRISE.
Half- Broken
unbroken –arrived recently
Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights
9127465
One recently arrived/one half broken--2 ships Half broken One broken/one unbroken 2 ship
Half broken 9072628
unbroken, recently arrived.
9077460
Recently arrived
half
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25
SAMIA SHIP BREAKING
Atiqur Rahman
26
SH ENTERPRISE
Ruifvfa
27
ARAFIN ENTERPRISE
Cape London Monrovia
28
JEWEL STEEL
Peregrine 1
8321046
unbroken
9127485
one Unbroken /one broken 2 ship unbroken, recently arrived
29
SN CORPORATION (UNIT3)
name is wiped out
IMO wiped out partially
30
PENINSULA STEEL MILLS LTD.
Seal Moroni
9003093
31
COLDEN IRON WORKS LTD.
K Pride Panama
9035802
32
TAHER & CO LTD.
Alcon
33
A R L SHIP BREAKING
Matrix
34
CRYSTAL STEELS & SHIP BREAKERS LTD.
Grace Charlestown
35
ZIRI SUBEDER STEEL REROLLING MILLS.
Banglar moni
36
SEIKO STEELS LTD.
37
ZUMA ENTERPRISE
38
KHADIZA CORPORATION
39
M.A SHIP BREAKERS
40
MABIYA SHIP BREAKERS,UNIT1
DB -101
7709069
unbroken, newly arrived
41
OWW TRADING & SHIPBREAKING.
Eternity
8701480
partly broken
41
SAID STEEL LTD.
partly broken
42
S M Ship Breaking Ltd.
partly broken
43
M M Ship Breaking Ltd
partly broken
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unbroken
unbroken, newly arrived
broken, recently arrived
unbroken, recently arrived
Ladix partly broken-- three ships
November 2015
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