The accident due to an oxygen cylinder blast occurred at a cement plant in Himri village run by one of India’s leading cement manufacturing companies, UltraTech Cement, on July 18

The deaths were reportedly caused by electrocution in the illegal underground factory after it was flooded by rain water

In a series of accidents between May to June, at least 75 workers have died in India, as per Global IndustriALL Union

Police arrested 10 people, including five members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and booked them under various charges, including criminal trespass and rioting. All 10 have been released on bail

The accident took place due to a styrene vapor leak at a polymer plant run by LG Polymers India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the South Korean LG Group, in the city of Visakhapatnam in the State of Andhra Pradesh

With another incident of factory fire reported in Bangladesh on Monday, the total number of accidental deaths in the country registered in the month of December so far has risen to 27

As many as 257 workers died in the fire at the Ali Enterprises factory in Karachi. Workers struggled for six years to get compensation and to this day, labor under hazardous working conditions