Rayna Plaza -Bangladesh
On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed just outside Dhaka. The building contained five clothing factories: most of the people in the building at the time were garment workers. Over 17 days 2,438 people were evacuated, more than 1,100 people died, and many more were left with life-long debilitating injuries.
During this incident, more than one of the ETI bases were breached. Firstly, the right to work in safe conditions because previously workers had noticed that there were cracks in the walls and that it wasn’t a safe working environment for them and upon telling the company they were told that if they did not come in to work they wouldn’t be paid so workers felt they had no choice but to come in even though they felt that their lives were in danger. Secondly children were employed by the company which is breaches the part of the ETI base code that states that children should not be employed and subsequently these children lost their lives in this disaster.