Those who have not made it home
Dave Scott
With another year passing since the 2010 Pike River Mine disaster resulting in 29 workplace deaths, it seems appropriate to recognise those who have passed away in this and other industrial tragedies around the world since that time. Only listing those with a toll of over 20 people, the numbers of those "who did not make it home" are chilling.
He tangi tonu ki a koutou kua wehe atu. Takoto rangimarie.
Continue to weep for you departed from us. Rest in peace.
6 July 2013, Quebec, Canada oil shipment derailment - 47 deaths
11 September 2012, Karachi, Pakistan garment factory fire - 289 deaths
24 November 2012, Tasreen Fashions fire, Dhaka, Bangladesh - 112 deaths
24 April 2013, Savar building collapse including 5 garment factories, Bangladesh - 1129 deaths
13 May 2014, Soma mine disaster, Turkey - 301 deaths
31 July - 1 August 2014, Kaohsiung gas explosions, Taiwan - 32 deaths
12 August 2015, Binhai - Tianjin China, container storage explosions - 173 deaths
10 September 2016, Gazipur, Bangladesh - packaging industry boiler explosion - 23 deaths