Bangladesh Rana PLaza Disaster
Rana Plaza collapse was a sturctural failure that occurred on Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The building contained clothing factories, a bank, apartments, and several shops. The shops and the bank on the lower floors immediately closed after cracks were discovered in the building. The building's owners ignored warnings to avoid using the building after cracks had appeared the day before. Garment workeres were ordered to return the following day, and the building collapsed during the moring rush-hour.
When
What?
Where?
The Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where an eight-story commercial building named Rana Plaza collapsed.
This picture shows citizens holding images of the family memeber or friends of the people ranged from 12-50 of both genders, that were involved in the Rana Plaza. It clearly shows these local resisdants are asking to make change to the rules and regulations of their saftey in a work place.
Why
The direct reason for the building problems were:
- building built first without authorization on a pond.
- conversion from the commercial use to industrial use,
- addition of 4 floors above the orgional permit
The use of substandard construction material (which led to an overload of the building structure aggravated by vibrations due to the generators). those various elements indicated dubious business practices by Sohel Rana and dubious administrative practices in Savar
Who
The search for the dead ended on 13 may 2013 with a death toll of 1,129. approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building alive. it is considered the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, as well as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history