The American Public Health Association's occupational health and safety section honored Indian safety activist Jagdish Patel last year by giving him its International Award. Here is a brief look at his career followed by his talk at the APHA awards ceremony.
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The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on 1 June 1974. It killed 28 people and seriously injured 36.
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A factory fire in Thailand in 1993 that killed 188 workers. Worker fatalities exceeded those at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the beginning of the Twentieth Century in the U.S.
