Bangladesh's ship recycling sector has suffered another fatality after a trader was killed by an exploding gas cylinder.
The accident happened on 15 September at Mother Steel Shipyard in Sitakunda.
A truck full of cylinders was being unloaded when a blast turned one of them into a deadly projectile that hit Nazim Uddin, 40, the Daily Star reported.
He was pronounced dead in hospital later that day, according to Abul Kalam Azad, the officer-in-charge of Sitakunda police station.
Uddin, a scrap trader, was at the yard looking for metal to buy.
June incident claimed one life
In June, a ship recycling worker died and at least three others were injured following a blast at the SN Corp facility in Sitakunda, when a boiler on a vessel exploded.
The worker who lost his life was named as cutter Ripon Chakma, 26, who was pronounced dead in hospital.
Safety at Bangladesh's breaking yards appeared to have improved since a series of incidents in 2019.
One worker — a cutter named as Shahidul — died that year when he fell from a former Evergreen ship at a recycling plant.
Another two workers died after inhaling toxic gas at the OWW plant in Sitakunda.
And two more lost their lives at the Ziri Subedar shipbreaking yard during scrapping of a former CSL vessel.
NGO Shipbreaking Platform reported that a heavy cable collapsed, hitting several workers at once.
The dead men were named as Aminul Islam, 35, and Tushar Chakma, 27.
