Bangladesh Exit doors were locked during fire..

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory in a Dhaka suburb was making clothes for Wal-Mart, Sears, Disney and other major global retailers. When a fire broke out over the weekend, many of the 1,400 workers were trapped inside the eight-story building because exit doors were locked. A fire official said the death toll would have been much lower if the factory had had an emergency exit.

Police said they were interrogating three factory managers on possible negligence charges. Workers said as they tried to escape the fire they found exit doors were locked.

http://www.chron.com/default/article/Factory-owner-I-didn-t-know-fire-exits-needed-4072076.php



Sears and Disney had their products sewn there.

[zipplewrath]

1. Sounds like the Triangle Fire

The parallels to the Triangle Fire is both strong and sad. Talk about not learning from history.

[Nay]

2. Exactly like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. No one learns from history -- or, rather, they don't care

about the history, because workers are expendable anyway.

[zipplewrath]

3. It is hard to find differences

About the only ones that come to mind are location and the color of the skin. Okay, and no one was making shirt waist blouses. Although the modern T-shirt is probably the functiona/economic equivalent.

[backscatter712]

10. History repeated itself.

My first thoughts upon hearing this story was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

I suggest guillotines for Walmart's executives:

[raouldukelives]

11. Yep. A lot of people lamented the loss of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

Then they realized they could export it and investors would line up to take part.

[HereSince1628]

4. The market learns lessons...often the wrong ones

Locked exit doors during a fire led to the initial deaths of 25 people and injury to more than 50 in the chicken processing plant in Hamlet North Carolina in 1991

Within 2 years, insurance companies and business lobbyists pushed legislation to limit compensation available to the injured and relatives of those killed.

The lesson turned out to be how well democracy works in a free-market legislature.

[RockaFowler]

5. Those poor people

[niyad]

6. negligence charges??? how about MURDER charges??

[Skidmore]

7. I heard on the ABC news very early this morning that the doors were locked because

they wanted to keep employees there to meet the demands of the holiday markets here. Clothing made in these factories were produced for Walmart, Disney, ENYCE, and Sears.

[malaise]

8. Well at least the workers didn't steal any of those previous

clothes

[JohnStJohn]

9. Additional news reports

are saying that this fire in Bangladesh may be arson related. If that is the case then I have to wonder just what the motive behind this and other recent garment factory fires in Bangladesh really are.