Uganda: Building workers’ union describes the terrible loss of life on Ugandan construction sites

Uganda. Oloka Mesilamu, General Secretary of the Uganda Building Workers’ Union, narrated the tragic fire that broke out last January at the Hima Cement factory, a subsidiary of Holcim, in the Kasese District of Western Uganda. He said that three workers died and several others were critically injured. The tragedy is just the latest in a growing list of work-related accidents in different Holcim cement plants which have injured and claimed the lives of many workers. #IWMD22Twitter