The local company not only led the 21-year-old worker to suffer severe burns in the explosion of a tank but also fired his friends who were trying to tell the truth

A Landscaping Company and Two Key Agents were Brought to Justice After the Department of Manpower Finds that the company and its staff had broken the law on safety and health at work in its preliminary investigations.

The victim, Rahman Mohammad Ataur, then 21, was reportedly forced to enter a water reservoir in Sungei Tengah through a manhole and clean the reservoir even after have detected a tank odor. Rahman was told not to apologize and take a halogen lamp with him in the tank.

As soon as the young worker who had just arrived in Singapore a year ago lit the lamp, an explosion burst and engulfed Rahman, leaving him third degree burns on 73% of the body and the body. face, and in a coma for three months.

The local publication TODAY Online covered the story of Rahman, but social worker Jolovan Wham says that today, sent away Rahman's friends who tried to get away with it. to expose the truth. Wham shared on Facebook that Rahman had mentioned this at TODAY:

"What's missing in this story is the worker's revelation to the reporter that when he was discharged from the hospital, his colleagues wanted tell the truth about the accident but his boss dismissed them. It's a common tactic and whistleblowers have little protection.When MOM asked him about the accident, he has had the impression of being a liar, of having done something wrong even though he went through the trauma of an explosion, was in a coma for weeks and weeks was branded forever MOM actually wanted to do a polygraph test on him.

"The assumption here is that the poor are out to fool the system. We must ask demeaning questions to guard against manipulative behavior. I heard that workers felt like that on countless occasions. This attitude informs all our policies and practices across ministries and aid agencies across the country, and we see it in the recent debate on income inequality. Those who defend it say that it is "pragmatism" and that it is important not to "waste" resources and defend the integrity of the system. It does not matter that the evidence of "social cheating" in Singapore is not convincing enough to justify such austerity, and certainly not enough to justify such arrogance towards those who complain and ask for help. Being pragmatic is just another word for class discrimination. In Singapore, the poor are still unworthy. "

Rahman, who underwent several reconstructive surgeries, revealed that he needed to reimburse the $ 16,000 travel expenses to come to work and that his family was being harassed in his absence.

that he thinks of the indictment of his former employer, the worker who earned $ 540 per month declared: "I have no advantage in being charged in court and I can not better recover his They are punished, but I hope something can be done so that everyone will remember that such a situation can happen, and this is not fair to me and to them other workers.

While Rahman's claims process was ongoing the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (Home) and helped to translate and explain cases to other migrant workers.

Rahman must return to Bangladesh soon, but his departure from Singapore is not at all what he was dreaming of. The 23-year-old told reporters: "It's hard to continue with surgeries in my own country because they're not easy … What I could do was Last time, I can not do it now I can not work in normal jobs I want to become normal again. "

A fine of up to $ 500,000 may be imposed on the person. Environmental Landscape while the director of the company Wong Shang Ling could be sentenced to a maximum term of imprisonment of 2. Rahman's supervisor, Hossan Billal, could be imprisoned up to 2 years and / or sentenced a fine of up to S $ 30,000 endangering Rahman's safety by negligence.